1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.
5 * debian/control, Makefile:
6 - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663
7 - migrate to openjade and opensp.
8 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
9 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
14 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
15 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
20 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
21 the debian/control file of a source package.
22 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
26 * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network
28 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
32 * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
33 in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
39 * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,
40 as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests
43 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:33:51 +0100
45 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
48 for the help. Closes: #769219
50 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
52 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
55 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
56 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
58 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
59 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
60 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
61 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
62 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
63 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
64 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
65 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
66 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
68 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
71 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
77 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
78 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
82 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
83 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
87 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
88 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
92 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
94 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
99 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
100 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
105 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
109 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
112 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
115 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
119 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
120 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
121 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
124 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
125 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
127 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
131 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
132 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
133 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
135 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
140 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
143 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
147 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
148 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
154 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
161 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
166 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
167 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
171 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
175 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
176 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
178 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
180 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
181 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
182 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
187 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
191 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
192 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
194 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
197 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
198 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
201 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
202 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
203 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
207 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
208 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
209 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
211 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
212 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
213 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
214 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
215 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
216 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
217 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
218 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
219 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
220 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
221 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
222 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
224 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
225 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
226 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
227 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
229 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
231 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
233 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
234 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
235 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
237 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
238 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
239 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
245 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
246 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
251 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
256 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
257 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
258 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
262 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
263 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
268 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
270 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
273 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
274 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
275 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
278 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
279 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
284 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
286 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
289 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
290 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
291 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
292 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
294 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
295 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
296 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
297 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
298 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
299 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
300 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
301 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
302 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
303 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
304 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
305 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
306 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
307 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
308 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
309 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
310 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
312 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
313 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
314 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
315 good to know which version one is looking at.
316 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
317 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
318 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
319 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
320 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
321 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
322 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
324 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
325 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
326 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
327 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
328 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
330 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
331 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
332 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
334 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
335 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
336 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
337 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
339 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
341 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
345 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
346 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
347 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
348 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
349 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
350 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
351 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
352 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
353 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
354 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
360 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
365 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
366 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
367 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
370 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
372 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
373 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
381 Closes: #620870, #532120
382 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
383 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
388 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
389 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
394 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
395 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
396 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
397 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
398 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
400 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
401 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
402 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
403 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
404 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
405 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
406 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
407 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
408 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
409 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
410 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
411 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
412 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
413 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
414 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
415 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
417 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
419 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
420 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
421 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
422 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
423 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
424 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
425 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
426 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
427 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
428 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
431 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
433 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
434 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
435 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
436 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
441 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
442 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
444 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
445 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
446 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
447 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
452 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
456 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
457 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
458 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
461 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
462 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
463 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
465 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
466 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
472 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
473 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
474 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
477 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
478 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
483 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
484 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
485 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
486 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
489 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
490 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
491 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
494 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
495 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
500 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
502 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
505 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
508 Closes: #459868, #581011
509 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
510 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
512 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
514 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
515 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
517 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
520 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
522 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
524 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
525 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
529 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
530 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
533 Closes: #501930, #593909
534 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
535 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
539 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
540 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
541 machine. (Closes: #591857)
542 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
543 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
544 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
545 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
546 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
547 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
548 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
549 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
550 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
551 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
553 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
554 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
555 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
556 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
557 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
558 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
559 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
560 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
561 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
562 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
563 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
564 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
565 than the version in oldstable.
566 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
567 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
568 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
569 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
570 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
571 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
572 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
573 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
574 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
575 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
576 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
577 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
578 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
579 package. (Closes: #609160)
581 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
583 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
586 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
591 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
592 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
597 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
601 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
611 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
616 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
617 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
621 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
622 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
624 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
629 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
631 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
643 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
644 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
648 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
649 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
658 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
659 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
663 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
664 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
668 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
669 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
673 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
675 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
676 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
677 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
678 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
679 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
680 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
681 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
682 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
683 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
685 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
686 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
687 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
688 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
689 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
690 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
692 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
694 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
700 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
703 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
704 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
705 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
706 and distribution license' (three times).
707 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
708 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
713 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
715 Proposed by Santiago Vila
716 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
723 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
724 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
728 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
729 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
730 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
733 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
735 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
736 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
740 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
741 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
744 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
746 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
747 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
750 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
752 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
753 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
756 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
758 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
759 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
760 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
763 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
764 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
769 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
770 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
771 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
774 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
775 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
776 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
779 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
780 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
781 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
785 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
786 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
787 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
790 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
791 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
796 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
797 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
801 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
802 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
803 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
804 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
805 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
806 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
807 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
808 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
809 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
810 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
811 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
812 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
813 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
814 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
815 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
816 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
817 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
818 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
819 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
820 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
821 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
822 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
823 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
824 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
825 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
826 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
827 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
828 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
829 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
830 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
831 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
832 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
834 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
836 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
838 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
842 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
844 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
845 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
849 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
852 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
853 Wording: Steve Langasek.
854 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
855 Seconded: Julien Cristau
856 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
859 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
860 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
861 Seconded: Russ Allbery
862 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
865 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
866 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
867 Seconded: Russ Allbery
869 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
870 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
871 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
872 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
873 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
874 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
875 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
876 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
879 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
880 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
881 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
882 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
883 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
884 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
885 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
887 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
888 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
889 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
890 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
891 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
892 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
893 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
896 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
897 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
898 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
899 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
900 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
902 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
905 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
906 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
909 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
910 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
913 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
915 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
918 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
922 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
923 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
925 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
927 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
928 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
929 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
932 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
933 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
936 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
937 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
939 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
940 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
945 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
946 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
947 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
950 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
951 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
952 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
955 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
956 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
960 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
961 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
962 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
965 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
966 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
967 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
970 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
971 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
972 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
973 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
974 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
975 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
976 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
977 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
978 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
979 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
980 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
981 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
982 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
983 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
984 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
986 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
987 Source field descriptions.
988 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
989 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
990 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
991 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
992 description says otherwise.
994 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
996 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
1000 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1001 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1002 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
1003 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1004 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1006 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
1007 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1008 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1011 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
1012 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1013 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1016 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
1017 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1018 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1021 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1022 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1023 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1024 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1028 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1029 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1030 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1031 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1032 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1034 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1035 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1036 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1037 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1039 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1042 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1043 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1045 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1046 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1047 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1049 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1051 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1054 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1055 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1056 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1058 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1059 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1060 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1061 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1063 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1064 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1065 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1066 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1068 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1069 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1070 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1071 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1073 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1074 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1075 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1076 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1078 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1079 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1080 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1081 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1083 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1084 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1085 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1086 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1088 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1089 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1090 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1091 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1093 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1094 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1095 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1096 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1098 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1099 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1100 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1101 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1103 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1104 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1105 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1106 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1107 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1109 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1110 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1111 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1112 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1113 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1114 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1115 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1116 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1117 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1118 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1119 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1120 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1121 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1122 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1123 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1124 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1125 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1126 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1127 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1128 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1129 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1130 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1131 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1132 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1133 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1134 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1135 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1136 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1137 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1138 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1140 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1141 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1142 links was completed long ago.
1143 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1145 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1147 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1150 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1152 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1154 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1157 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1158 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1159 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1160 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1161 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1162 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1163 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1164 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1165 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1167 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1169 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1171 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1172 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1173 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1174 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1175 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1176 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1177 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1179 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1180 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1181 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1182 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1184 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1185 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1186 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1187 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1188 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1189 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1190 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1191 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1192 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1193 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1195 Closes: #186700, #458910
1196 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1197 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1198 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1200 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1201 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1202 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1203 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1204 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1205 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1206 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1207 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1209 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1210 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1212 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1213 * Add an md5sums control file.
1214 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1215 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1216 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1217 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1218 currently part of policy.
1219 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1220 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1221 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1224 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1226 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1229 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1230 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1231 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1232 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1233 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1234 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1235 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1236 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1237 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1239 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1240 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1241 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1242 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1243 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1245 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1247 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1248 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1249 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1251 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1252 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1253 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1254 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1255 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1256 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1257 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1258 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1259 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1260 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1261 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1262 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1263 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1264 debconf specification.
1265 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1266 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1268 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1270 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1273 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1275 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1276 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1281 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1282 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1283 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1284 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1286 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1287 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1288 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1289 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1290 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1291 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1292 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1293 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1294 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1295 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1296 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1297 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1298 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1300 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1306 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1307 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1308 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1310 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1311 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1312 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1314 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1316 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1319 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1320 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1322 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1324 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1327 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1328 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1329 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1331 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1333 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1335 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1337 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1338 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1339 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1340 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1341 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1342 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1344 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1346 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1349 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1350 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1351 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1354 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1356 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1358 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1361 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1362 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1363 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1364 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1365 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1366 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1367 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1368 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1369 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1371 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1372 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1374 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1375 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1376 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1377 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1378 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1379 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1380 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1381 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1384 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1386 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1389 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1390 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1391 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1392 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1393 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1394 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1395 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1396 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1397 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1398 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1399 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1400 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1401 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1402 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1403 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1404 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1405 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1406 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1407 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1408 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1409 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1410 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1411 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1412 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1413 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1414 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1415 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1417 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1418 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1419 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1420 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1422 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1423 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1424 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1425 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1426 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1427 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1428 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1429 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1430 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1431 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1432 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1435 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1438 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1439 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1440 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1441 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1442 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1443 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1444 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1445 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1446 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1447 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1449 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1451 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1455 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1456 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1457 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1459 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1460 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1461 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1463 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1464 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1465 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1466 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1469 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1471 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1472 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1473 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1474 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1475 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1476 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1477 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1478 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1479 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1480 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1481 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1482 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1483 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1484 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1486 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1489 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1491 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1494 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1495 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1496 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1498 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1499 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1500 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1501 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1503 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1505 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1509 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1510 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1511 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1512 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1513 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1514 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1515 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1516 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1517 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1519 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1520 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1521 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1523 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1524 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1525 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1526 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1527 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1528 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1529 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1531 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1532 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1533 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1534 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1536 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1537 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1538 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1539 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1541 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1542 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1543 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1546 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1547 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1548 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1549 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1550 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1551 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1552 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1553 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1554 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1555 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1556 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1557 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1558 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1559 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1560 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1561 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1563 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1565 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1569 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1570 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1571 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1572 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1573 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1574 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1575 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1576 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1578 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1579 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1580 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1581 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1582 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1583 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1584 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1585 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1586 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1587 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1588 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1589 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1590 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1591 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1592 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1593 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1594 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1596 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1597 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1598 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1601 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1602 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1603 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1605 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1606 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1607 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1608 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1609 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1610 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1612 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1613 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1615 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1616 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1617 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1618 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1619 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1620 Closes: #185943, #237049
1622 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1624 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1630 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1631 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1632 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1633 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1634 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1635 running. closes: Bug#187250
1636 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1637 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1638 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1639 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1640 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1641 user closes: Bug#176506
1643 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1645 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1649 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1650 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1651 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1652 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1653 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1654 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1655 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1656 deb-building toolchain.
1657 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1658 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1659 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1660 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1661 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1662 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1663 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1664 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1665 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1666 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1667 sections about changelog files.
1669 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1670 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1671 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1672 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1673 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1674 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1676 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1677 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1678 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1679 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1680 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1681 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1682 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1683 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1684 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1685 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1686 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1687 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1688 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1689 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1690 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1691 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1692 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1693 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1694 for the restructuring
1696 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1698 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1703 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1704 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1705 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1706 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1707 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1708 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1710 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1711 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1712 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1713 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1714 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1715 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1716 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1718 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1719 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1720 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1721 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1723 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1725 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1729 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1730 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1731 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1732 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1733 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1735 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1736 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1737 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1738 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1740 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1741 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1742 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1743 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1744 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1745 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1746 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1747 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1748 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1749 offtopic stuff, too.
1750 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1751 script should start it, closes: #60979
1752 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1753 "should", closes: #170019
1754 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1755 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1756 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1757 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1758 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1759 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1760 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1761 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1764 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1766 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1770 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1771 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1772 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1773 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1774 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1775 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1776 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1777 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1779 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1780 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1781 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1782 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1783 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1784 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1785 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1786 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1787 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1789 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1790 file, closes: Bug#65764
1792 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1794 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1797 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1798 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1799 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1800 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1801 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1802 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1803 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1804 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1805 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1806 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1807 details. closes: Bug#133030
1808 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1809 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1810 parts of Bug#161455.
1812 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1814 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1817 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1818 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1819 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1820 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1821 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1822 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1823 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1824 not. closes: Bug#139820
1825 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1826 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1827 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1828 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1829 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1830 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1831 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1832 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1833 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1834 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1836 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1838 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1839 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1840 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1841 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1842 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1843 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1844 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1845 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1846 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1847 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1848 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1849 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1850 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1851 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1852 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1853 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1854 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1855 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1856 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1857 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1859 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1860 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1861 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1862 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1863 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1864 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1865 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1867 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1868 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1869 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1870 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1871 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1872 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1873 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1874 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1875 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1877 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1879 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1882 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1883 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1884 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1885 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1886 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1887 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1888 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1889 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1890 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1891 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1892 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1893 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1894 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1895 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1896 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1897 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1898 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1899 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1900 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1901 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1902 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1903 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1905 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1907 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1910 medium, high, emergency.
1911 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1912 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1913 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1914 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1915 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1918 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1919 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1920 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1922 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1923 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1924 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1925 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1926 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1927 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1928 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1931 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1933 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1936 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1937 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1938 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1940 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1941 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1942 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1943 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1944 debian/rules to do this
1945 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1946 patches are incorporated upstream
1947 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1948 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1949 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1950 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1951 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1952 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1954 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1955 system closes: Bug#91249
1956 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1957 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1958 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1959 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1960 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1961 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1962 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1963 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1964 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1965 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1966 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1967 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1968 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1970 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1972 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1975 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1976 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1977 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1979 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1980 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1981 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1983 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1986 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1988 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1991 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1992 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1993 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1994 package for the time being
1995 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1996 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1997 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1998 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1999 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
2000 * Rename all .text files as .txt
2001 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
2002 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
2003 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
2004 Build-Depends arch syntax
2005 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
2007 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
2008 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
2010 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
2011 from policy maintenance duties.
2012 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
2013 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
2015 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
2017 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2021 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2023 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2026 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2027 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2028 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2029 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2030 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2031 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2032 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2033 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2034 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2035 minor version number for this
2036 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2037 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2038 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2039 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2040 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2041 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2042 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2043 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2044 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2046 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2048 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2051 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2052 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2053 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2054 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2056 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2058 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2059 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2060 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2061 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2062 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2063 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2064 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2065 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2066 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2067 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2068 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2069 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2070 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2071 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2072 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2073 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2076 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2078 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2081 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2083 * Document the Enhances relationship
2084 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2085 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2086 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2087 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2088 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2089 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2091 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2093 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2094 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2095 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2096 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2098 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2099 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2100 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2101 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2102 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2104 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2106 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2109 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2110 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2112 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2113 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2114 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2115 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2116 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2117 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2118 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2119 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2120 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2122 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2124 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2126 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2129 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2130 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2131 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2132 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2133 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2134 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2135 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2136 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2137 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2138 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2139 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2140 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2141 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2142 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2143 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2144 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2145 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2146 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2147 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2148 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2149 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2151 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2152 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2154 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2156 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2159 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2160 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2161 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2162 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2163 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2164 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2165 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2166 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2167 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2168 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2169 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2170 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2171 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2172 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2173 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2174 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2175 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2176 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2177 list closes: Bug#53756
2178 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2179 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2180 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2181 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2182 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2183 policy closes: Bug#53760
2184 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2185 policy closes: Bug#53761
2186 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2187 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2188 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2189 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2190 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2191 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2192 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2193 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2194 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2195 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2196 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2198 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2199 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2200 to install with older fileutils.
2201 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2202 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2203 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2204 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2206 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2207 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2211 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2214 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2218 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2221 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2223 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2226 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2229 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2231 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2233 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2235 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2238 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2240 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2242 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2245 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2246 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2247 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2248 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2249 directoried (closes: #41547)
2250 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2251 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2252 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2253 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2254 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2255 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2256 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2257 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2258 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2259 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2260 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2262 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2263 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2264 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2265 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2266 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2267 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2268 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2270 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2271 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2272 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2273 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2275 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2277 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2279 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2280 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2282 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2284 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2287 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2289 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2291 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2294 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2296 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2297 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2298 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2299 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2300 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2301 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2302 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2303 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2304 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2305 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2306 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2307 this closes: Bug#38612
2308 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2309 before. closes: Bug#40864
2311 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2313 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2316 officially uploaded.
2317 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2319 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2320 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2321 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2323 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2324 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2325 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2326 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2327 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2328 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2330 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2331 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2332 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2334 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2336 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2337 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2338 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2339 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2340 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2342 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2344 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2347 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2348 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2349 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2350 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2351 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2352 there). closes: Bug#34233
2353 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2354 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2355 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2356 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2357 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2359 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2361 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2364 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2365 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2366 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2369 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2370 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2371 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2372 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2373 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2376 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2377 number. closes: BUG#25911
2379 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2380 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2381 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2382 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2383 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2384 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2386 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2387 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2388 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2391 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2392 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2393 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2395 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2396 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2397 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2398 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2400 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2401 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2402 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2404 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2406 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2407 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2408 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2409 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2410 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2411 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2412 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2413 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2416 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2418 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2419 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2422 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2424 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2428 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2430 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2433 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2434 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2435 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2436 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2437 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2438 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2439 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2441 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2442 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2444 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2446 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2448 * non-maintainer release
2449 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2450 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2452 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2453 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2454 * no content changes
2455 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2457 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2459 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2463 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2465 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2469 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2470 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2471 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2473 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2474 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2476 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2477 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2478 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2479 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2481 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2482 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2483 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2484 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2485 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2486 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2487 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2489 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2490 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2491 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2494 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2495 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2496 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2498 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2499 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2500 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2502 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2503 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2505 * New version numbering scheme:
2507 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2508 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2509 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2512 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2513 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2514 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2515 differ between the manuals.
2517 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2518 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2519 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2520 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2522 * Packaging changes:
2524 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2525 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2527 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2529 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2531 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2535 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2536 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2537 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2539 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2540 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2543 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2544 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2545 file extension as the referenced file
2547 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2548 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2550 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2551 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2552 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2553 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2556 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2557 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2558 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2560 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2561 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2562 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2563 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2566 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2567 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2570 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2571 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2572 reasonable default configuration
2574 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2575 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2576 by all news servers and clients
2578 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2579 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2580 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2581 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2582 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2584 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2585 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2588 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2590 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2591 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2593 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2596 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2597 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2599 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2600 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2602 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2604 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2606 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2609 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2610 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2611 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2613 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2615 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2616 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2617 * Don't use debstd anymore
2619 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2621 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2624 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2625 contrib/non-free policy
2626 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2627 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2628 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2629 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2630 - new section about `Daemons'
2631 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2632 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2633 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2634 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2635 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2636 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2637 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2638 * SGML source code included in package
2639 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2641 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2643 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2646 - completely reworked structure
2647 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2648 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2649 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2650 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2651 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2652 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2653 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2654 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2655 - mention "orphaned packages"
2656 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2657 distributions' policy
2658 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2659 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2660 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2661 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2662 - added section about arch spec strings
2663 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2664 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2665 - added section about "menus"
2666 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2667 the new documentation policy soon
2668 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2669 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2671 - added section about editors and pagers
2672 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2673 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2674 - added section about device files
2675 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2676 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2677 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2679 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2680 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2681 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2682 - Added new section about obsolete names
2683 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2684 * Fixed package's description
2686 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2688 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2692 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2694 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2697 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2698 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2699 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2701 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2703 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2706 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2707 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2709 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2710 and upload it "byhand" too.
2712 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2714 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2718 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2719 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2720 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2721 functionality must not have the same name.
2722 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2723 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2724 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2725 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2726 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2727 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2728 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2730 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2731 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2732 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2733 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2734 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2735 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2736 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2737 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2740 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2742 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2744 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2746 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2747 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2748 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2749 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2750 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2753 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2755 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2757 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2759 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2760 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2761 description of deb file format.
2762 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2763 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2765 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2767 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2768 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2770 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2772 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2774 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2775 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2776 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2777 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2778 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2779 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2780 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2781 packages in section on Procedure
2782 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2783 a package maintainer
2784 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2785 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2786 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2788 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2789 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2790 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2791 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2792 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2793 on various shlib files
2794 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2795 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2796 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2798 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2800 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2802 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2803 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2804 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2806 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2807 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2808 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2809 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2810 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2812 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2814 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2816 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2818 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2820 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2821 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2822 compatibility go in contrib.
2824 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2825 instructions in policy manual.
2826 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2829 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2831 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2833 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2834 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2835 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2836 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2838 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2839 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2842 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2844 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2846 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2847 * More detail about changelog format names.
2849 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2850 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2854 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2856 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2858 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2860 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2862 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2864 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2866 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2868 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2869 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2870 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2872 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2874 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2876 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2878 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2880 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2884 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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