1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
15 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
17 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
19 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
21 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
22 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
23 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
25 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
26 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
27 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
28 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
33 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
34 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
39 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
43 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
44 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
45 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
46 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
50 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
51 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
58 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
61 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
62 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
63 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
66 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
67 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
72 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
74 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
77 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
78 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
79 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
80 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
82 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
83 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
84 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
85 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
86 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
87 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
88 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
89 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
90 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
91 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
92 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
93 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
94 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
95 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
96 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
97 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
98 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
100 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
101 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
102 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
103 good to know which version one is looking at.
104 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
105 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
106 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
107 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
108 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
109 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
110 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
112 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
113 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
114 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
115 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
116 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
118 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
119 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
120 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
122 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
123 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
124 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
125 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
127 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
129 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
133 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
134 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
135 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
136 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
137 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
138 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
139 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
140 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
141 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
142 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
148 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
153 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
154 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
155 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
158 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
160 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
161 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
165 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
166 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
169 Closes: #620870, #532120
170 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
171 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
176 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
177 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
182 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
183 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
184 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
185 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
186 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
188 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
189 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
190 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
191 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
192 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
193 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
194 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
195 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
196 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
197 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
198 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
199 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
200 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
201 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
202 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
203 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
205 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
207 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
208 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
209 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
210 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
211 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
212 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
213 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
214 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
215 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
216 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
219 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
221 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
222 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
223 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
224 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
229 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
230 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
232 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
233 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
234 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
235 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
238 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
240 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
244 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
245 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
246 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
249 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
250 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
251 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
253 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
254 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
260 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
261 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
262 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
265 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
266 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
271 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
272 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
273 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
274 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
277 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
278 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
279 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
282 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
283 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
288 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
290 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
293 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
296 Closes: #459868, #581011
297 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
300 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
302 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
303 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
305 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
308 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
310 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
312 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
313 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
317 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
318 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
321 Closes: #501930, #593909
322 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
323 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
327 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
328 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
329 machine. (Closes: #591857)
330 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
331 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
332 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
333 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
334 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
335 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
336 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
337 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
338 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
339 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
341 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
342 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
343 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
344 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
345 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
346 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
347 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
348 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
349 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
350 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
351 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
352 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
353 than the version in oldstable.
354 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
355 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
356 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
357 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
358 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
359 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
360 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
361 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
362 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
363 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
364 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
365 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
366 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
367 package. (Closes: #609160)
369 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
371 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
374 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
379 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
384 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
385 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
389 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
390 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
394 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
395 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
399 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
400 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
404 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
405 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
409 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
412 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
417 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
419 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
420 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
425 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
426 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
431 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
432 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
436 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
437 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
441 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
446 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
447 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
451 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
452 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
456 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
457 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
461 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
463 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
464 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
465 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
466 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
467 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
468 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
469 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
470 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
471 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
473 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
474 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
475 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
476 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
477 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
478 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
480 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
482 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
488 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
491 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
492 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
493 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
494 and distribution license' (three times).
495 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
496 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
501 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
503 Proposed by Santiago Vila
504 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
511 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
516 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
517 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
521 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
523 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
528 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
532 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
534 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
535 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
538 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
544 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
546 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
548 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
551 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
557 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
562 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
567 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
573 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
574 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
575 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
578 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
579 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
584 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
585 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
589 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
590 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
591 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
592 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
593 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
594 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
595 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
596 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
597 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
598 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
599 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
600 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
601 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
602 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
603 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
604 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
605 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
606 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
607 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
608 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
609 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
610 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
611 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
612 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
613 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
614 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
615 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
616 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
617 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
618 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
619 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
620 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
622 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
624 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
626 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
630 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
632 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
633 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
637 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
640 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
641 Wording: Steve Langasek.
642 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
643 Seconded: Julien Cristau
644 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
647 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
648 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
649 Seconded: Russ Allbery
650 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
653 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
654 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
655 Seconded: Russ Allbery
657 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
658 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
659 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
660 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
661 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
662 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
663 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
664 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
667 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
668 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
669 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
670 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
671 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
672 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
673 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
675 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
676 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
677 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
678 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
679 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
680 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
681 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
684 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
685 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
686 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
687 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
688 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
690 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
693 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
694 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
697 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
698 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
701 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
703 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
706 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
707 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
710 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
711 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
715 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
716 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
721 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
724 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
725 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
727 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
728 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
733 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
734 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
738 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
739 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
743 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
744 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
748 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
749 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
753 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
754 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
758 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
759 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
760 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
761 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
762 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
763 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
764 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
765 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
766 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
767 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
768 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
769 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
770 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
771 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
772 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
774 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
775 Source field descriptions.
776 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
777 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
778 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
779 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
780 description says otherwise.
782 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
784 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
788 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
791 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
792 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
794 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
795 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
796 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
797 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
799 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
800 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
801 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
802 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
804 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
805 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
807 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
809 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
810 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
811 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
812 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
816 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
817 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
818 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
819 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
820 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
822 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
823 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
824 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
827 * Add myself to Uploaders.
830 * Add myself to Uploaders.
831 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
833 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
834 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
835 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
837 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
839 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
842 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
843 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
844 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
847 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
848 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
849 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
851 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
852 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
853 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
854 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
856 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
857 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
858 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
859 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
861 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
862 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
866 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
867 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
871 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
872 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
874 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
876 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
877 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
879 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
881 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
882 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
883 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
886 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
887 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
889 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
891 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
892 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
895 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
897 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
898 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
899 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
900 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
901 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
902 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
903 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
904 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
905 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
906 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
907 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
908 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
909 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
910 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
911 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
912 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
913 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
914 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
915 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
916 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
917 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
918 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
919 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
920 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
921 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
922 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
923 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
924 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
925 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
926 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
928 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
929 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
930 links was completed long ago.
931 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
933 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
935 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
938 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
940 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
942 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
945 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
946 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
947 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
948 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
949 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
950 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
951 Millan (Closes: #209008).
952 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
953 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
955 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
957 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
959 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
960 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
961 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
962 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
963 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
964 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
965 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
967 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
968 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
969 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
970 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
972 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
973 Küster (Closes: #403391).
974 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
975 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
976 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
977 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
978 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
979 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
982 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
983 Closes: #186700, #458910
984 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
985 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
986 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
988 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
989 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
990 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
991 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
992 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
993 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
994 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
995 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
997 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
998 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1000 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1001 * Add an md5sums control file.
1002 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1003 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1004 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1005 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1006 currently part of policy.
1007 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1008 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1009 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1012 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1014 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1017 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1018 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1019 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1020 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1021 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1022 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1023 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1024 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1025 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1027 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1028 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1029 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1030 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1031 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1033 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1035 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1036 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1037 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1039 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1040 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1041 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1042 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1043 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1044 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1045 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1046 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1047 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1048 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1049 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1050 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1051 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1052 debconf specification.
1053 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1054 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1056 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1058 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1061 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1063 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1064 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1069 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1070 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1071 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1072 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1074 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1075 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1076 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1077 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1078 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1079 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1080 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1081 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1082 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1083 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1084 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1085 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1086 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1088 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1091 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1093 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1094 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1095 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1096 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1097 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1098 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1099 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1100 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1102 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1104 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1107 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1108 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1110 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1112 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1115 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1116 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1117 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1118 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1119 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1121 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1123 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1125 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1126 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1127 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1128 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1129 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1130 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1132 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1134 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1137 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1138 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1139 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1142 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1144 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1146 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1149 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1150 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1151 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1152 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1153 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1154 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1155 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1156 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1157 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1159 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1160 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1162 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1163 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1164 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1165 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1166 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1168 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1169 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1172 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1174 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1177 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1179 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1180 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1181 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1182 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1183 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1184 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1185 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1186 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1187 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1188 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1189 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1190 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1191 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1192 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1193 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1194 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1195 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1197 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1198 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1199 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1200 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1201 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1202 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1203 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1205 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1206 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1207 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1208 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1209 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1210 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1211 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1212 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1213 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1214 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1215 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1216 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1217 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1218 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1219 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1220 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1223 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1225 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1226 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1228 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1229 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1230 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1231 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1232 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1233 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1234 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1235 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1237 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1239 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1243 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1244 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1245 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1246 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1247 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1248 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1249 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1251 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1252 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1253 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1256 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1257 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1259 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1260 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1262 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1264 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1266 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1268 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1270 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1271 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1272 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1274 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1277 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1279 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1282 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1283 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1284 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1286 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1287 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1289 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1293 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1297 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1298 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1299 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1300 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1302 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1303 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1304 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1305 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1308 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1309 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1312 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1313 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1315 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1316 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1317 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1319 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1320 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1321 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1322 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1325 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1326 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1327 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1329 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1330 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1331 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1334 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1335 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1336 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1338 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1339 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1340 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1342 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1343 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1344 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1345 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1346 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1347 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1348 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1349 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1351 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1353 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1357 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1358 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1359 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1360 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1361 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1362 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1363 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1364 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1366 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1367 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1368 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1369 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1370 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1371 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1372 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1373 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1374 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1375 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1376 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1377 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1379 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1380 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1381 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1382 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1385 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1386 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1389 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1390 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1391 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1393 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1394 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1395 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1396 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1397 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1398 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1400 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1401 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1403 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1404 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1405 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1406 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1407 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1408 Closes: #185943, #237049
1410 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1412 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1418 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1419 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1420 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1421 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1422 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1423 running. closes: Bug#187250
1424 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1425 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1426 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1427 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1428 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1429 user closes: Bug#176506
1431 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1433 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1437 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1438 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1439 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1440 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1441 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1442 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1443 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1444 deb-building toolchain.
1445 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1446 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1447 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1448 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1449 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1450 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1451 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1452 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1453 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1454 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1455 sections about changelog files.
1457 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1458 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1459 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1460 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1461 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1462 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1464 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1465 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1466 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1467 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1468 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1469 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1470 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1471 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1472 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1473 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1474 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1475 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1476 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1477 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1478 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1479 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1480 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1481 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1482 for the restructuring
1484 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1486 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1491 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1492 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1493 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1494 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1495 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1496 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1498 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1499 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1500 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1501 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1502 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1503 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1504 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1506 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1507 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1508 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1509 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1511 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1513 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1517 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1518 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1519 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1520 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1521 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1523 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1524 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1525 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1526 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1528 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1529 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1530 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1531 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1532 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1533 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1534 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1535 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1536 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1537 offtopic stuff, too.
1538 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1539 script should start it, closes: #60979
1540 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1541 "should", closes: #170019
1542 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1543 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1544 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1545 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1546 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1547 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1548 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1549 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1552 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1554 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1558 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1559 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1560 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1561 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1562 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1563 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1564 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1565 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1567 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1568 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1569 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1570 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1571 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1572 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1573 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1574 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1575 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1577 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1578 file, closes: Bug#65764
1580 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1582 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1585 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1586 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1587 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1588 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1589 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1590 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1591 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1592 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1593 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1594 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1595 details. closes: Bug#133030
1596 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1597 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1598 parts of Bug#161455.
1600 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1602 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1605 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1606 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1607 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1608 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1609 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1610 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1611 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1612 not. closes: Bug#139820
1613 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1614 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1615 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1616 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1617 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1618 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1619 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1620 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1621 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1622 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1624 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1626 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1627 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1628 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1629 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1630 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1631 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1632 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1633 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1634 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1635 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1636 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1637 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1638 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1639 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1640 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1641 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1642 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1643 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1644 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1645 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1647 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1648 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1649 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1650 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1651 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1652 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1653 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1655 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1656 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1657 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1658 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1659 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1660 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1661 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1662 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1663 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1665 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1667 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1670 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1671 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1672 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1673 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1674 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1675 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1676 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1677 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1678 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1679 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1680 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1681 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1682 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1683 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1684 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1685 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1686 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1687 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1688 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1689 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1690 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1691 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1695 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1698 medium, high, emergency.
1699 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1700 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1701 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1702 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1703 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1706 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1707 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1708 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1710 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1711 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1712 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1713 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1714 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1715 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1716 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1719 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1721 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1724 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1725 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1726 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1728 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1729 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1730 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1731 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1732 debian/rules to do this
1733 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1734 patches are incorporated upstream
1735 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1736 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1737 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1738 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1739 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1740 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1742 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1743 system closes: Bug#91249
1744 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1745 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1746 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1747 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1748 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1749 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1750 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1751 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1752 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1753 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1754 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1755 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1756 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1758 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1760 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1763 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1764 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1765 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1767 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1768 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1769 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1771 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1774 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1776 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1779 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1780 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1781 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1782 package for the time being
1783 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1784 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1785 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1786 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1787 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1788 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1789 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1790 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1791 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1792 Build-Depends arch syntax
1793 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1795 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1796 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1798 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1799 from policy maintenance duties.
1800 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1801 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1803 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1805 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1809 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1811 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1814 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1815 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1816 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1817 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1818 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1819 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1820 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1821 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1822 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1823 minor version number for this
1824 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1825 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1826 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1827 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1828 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1829 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1830 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1831 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1832 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1834 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1836 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1839 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1840 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1841 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1842 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1844 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1846 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1847 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1848 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1849 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1850 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1851 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1852 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1853 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1854 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1855 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1856 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1857 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1858 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1859 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1860 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1861 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1864 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1866 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1869 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1871 * Document the Enhances relationship
1872 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1873 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1874 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1875 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1876 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1877 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1879 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1881 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1882 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1883 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1884 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1886 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1887 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1888 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1889 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1890 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1892 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1894 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1897 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1898 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1900 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1901 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1902 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1903 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1904 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1905 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1906 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1907 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1908 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1910 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1914 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1917 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1918 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1919 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1920 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1921 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1922 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1923 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1924 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1925 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1926 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1927 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1928 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1929 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1930 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1931 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1932 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1933 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1934 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1935 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1936 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1937 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1939 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1940 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1942 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1944 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1947 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1948 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1949 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1950 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1951 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1952 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1953 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1954 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1955 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1956 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1957 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1958 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1959 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1960 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1961 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1962 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1963 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1964 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1965 list closes: Bug#53756
1966 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1967 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1968 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1969 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1970 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1971 policy closes: Bug#53760
1972 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1973 policy closes: Bug#53761
1974 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1975 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1976 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1977 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1978 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1979 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1980 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1981 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1982 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1983 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1984 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1986 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1987 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1988 to install with older fileutils.
1989 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1990 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1991 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1992 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1994 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1995 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1997 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1999 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2002 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2004 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2006 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2009 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2011 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2014 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2017 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2019 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2021 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2023 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2026 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2028 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2030 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2033 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2034 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2035 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2036 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2037 directoried (closes: #41547)
2038 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2039 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2040 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2041 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2042 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2043 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2044 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2045 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2046 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2047 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2048 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2050 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2051 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2052 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2053 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2054 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2055 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2056 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2058 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2059 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2060 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2061 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2063 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2065 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2067 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2068 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2070 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2072 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2075 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2077 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2079 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2082 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2084 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2085 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2086 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2087 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2088 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2089 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2090 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2091 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2092 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2093 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2094 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2095 this closes: Bug#38612
2096 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2097 before. closes: Bug#40864
2099 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2101 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2104 officially uploaded.
2105 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2107 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2108 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2109 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2111 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2112 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2113 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2114 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2115 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2116 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2118 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2119 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2120 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2122 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2124 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2125 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2126 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2127 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2128 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2130 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2132 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2135 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2136 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2137 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2138 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2139 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2140 there). closes: Bug#34233
2141 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2142 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2143 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2144 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2145 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2147 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2149 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2152 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2153 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2154 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2157 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2158 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2159 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2160 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2161 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2164 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2165 number. closes: BUG#25911
2167 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2168 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2169 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2170 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2171 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2172 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2174 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2175 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2176 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2179 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2180 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2181 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2183 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2184 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2185 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2186 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2188 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2189 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2190 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2192 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2194 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2195 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2196 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2197 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2198 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2199 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2200 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2201 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2204 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2206 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2207 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2210 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2212 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2216 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2218 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2221 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2222 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2223 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2224 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2225 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2226 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2227 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2229 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2230 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2232 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2234 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2236 * non-maintainer release
2237 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2238 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2240 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2241 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2242 * no content changes
2243 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2245 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2247 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2251 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2253 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2257 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2258 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2259 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2261 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2262 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2264 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2265 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2266 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2267 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2269 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2270 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2271 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2272 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2273 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2274 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2275 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2277 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2278 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2279 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2282 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2283 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2284 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2286 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2287 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2288 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2290 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2291 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2293 * New version numbering scheme:
2295 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2296 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2297 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2300 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2301 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2302 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2303 differ between the manuals.
2305 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2306 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2307 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2308 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2310 * Packaging changes:
2312 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2313 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2315 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2317 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2319 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2323 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2324 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2325 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2327 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2328 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2331 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2332 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2333 file extension as the referenced file
2335 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2336 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2338 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2339 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2340 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2341 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2344 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2345 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2346 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2348 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2349 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2350 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2351 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2354 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2355 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2358 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2359 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2360 reasonable default configuration
2362 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2363 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2364 by all news servers and clients
2366 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2367 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2368 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2369 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2370 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2372 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2373 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2376 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2378 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2379 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2381 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2384 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2385 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2387 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2388 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2390 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2392 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2394 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2397 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2398 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2399 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2401 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2403 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2404 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2405 * Don't use debstd anymore
2407 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2409 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2412 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2413 contrib/non-free policy
2414 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2415 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2416 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2417 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2418 - new section about `Daemons'
2419 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2420 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2421 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2422 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2423 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2424 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2425 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2426 * SGML source code included in package
2427 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2429 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2431 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2434 - completely reworked structure
2435 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2436 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2437 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2438 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2439 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2440 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2441 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2442 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2443 - mention "orphaned packages"
2444 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2445 distributions' policy
2446 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2447 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2448 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2449 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2450 - added section about arch spec strings
2451 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2452 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2453 - added section about "menus"
2454 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2455 the new documentation policy soon
2456 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2457 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2459 - added section about editors and pagers
2460 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2461 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2462 - added section about device files
2463 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2464 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2465 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2467 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2468 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2469 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2470 - Added new section about obsolete names
2471 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2472 * Fixed package's description
2474 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2476 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2480 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2482 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2485 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2486 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2487 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2489 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2491 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2494 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2495 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2497 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2498 and upload it "byhand" too.
2500 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2502 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2506 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2507 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2508 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2509 functionality must not have the same name.
2510 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2511 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2512 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2513 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2514 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2515 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2516 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2518 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2519 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2520 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2521 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2522 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2523 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2524 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2525 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2528 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2530 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2532 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2534 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2535 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2536 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2537 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2538 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2541 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2543 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2545 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2547 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2548 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2549 description of deb file format.
2550 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2551 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2553 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2555 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2556 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2558 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2560 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2562 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2563 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2564 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2565 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2566 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2567 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2568 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2569 packages in section on Procedure
2570 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2571 a package maintainer
2572 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2573 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2574 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2576 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2577 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2578 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2579 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2580 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2581 on various shlib files
2582 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2583 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2584 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2586 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2588 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2590 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2591 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2592 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2594 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2595 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2596 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2597 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2598 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2600 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2602 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2604 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2606 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2608 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2609 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2610 compatibility go in contrib.
2612 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2613 instructions in policy manual.
2614 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2617 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2619 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2621 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2622 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2623 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2624 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2626 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2627 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2630 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2632 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2634 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2635 * More detail about changelog format names.
2637 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2638 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2642 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2644 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2646 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2648 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2650 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2652 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2654 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2656 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2657 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2658 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2660 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2662 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2664 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2666 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2668 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2672 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100