1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
4 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
5 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
6 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
7 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
9 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
10 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
11 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
12 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
13 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
14 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
16 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
17 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
18 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
19 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
21 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
22 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
23 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
26 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
28 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
32 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
33 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
34 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
35 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
36 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
37 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
38 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
39 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
40 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
41 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
47 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
52 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
53 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
57 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
59 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
60 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
68 Closes: #620870, #532120
69 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
70 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
75 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
76 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
77 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
81 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
82 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
83 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
84 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
85 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
87 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
88 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
89 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
90 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
91 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
92 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
93 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
94 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
95 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
96 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
97 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
98 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
99 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
100 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
101 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
102 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
104 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
106 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
107 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
108 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
109 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
110 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
111 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
112 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
113 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
114 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
115 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
118 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
120 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
121 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
122 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
123 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
128 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
129 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
131 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
132 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
133 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
134 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
139 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
143 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
144 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
145 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
148 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
149 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
152 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
153 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
159 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
160 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
161 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
164 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
165 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
170 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
171 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
172 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
173 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
176 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
177 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
178 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
181 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
182 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
187 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
189 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
195 Closes: #459868, #581011
196 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
202 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
204 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
207 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
209 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
217 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
220 Closes: #501930, #593909
221 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
226 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
227 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
228 machine. (Closes: #591857)
229 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
230 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
231 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
232 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
233 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
234 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
235 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
236 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
237 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
238 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
240 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
241 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
242 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
243 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
244 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
245 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
246 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
247 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
248 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
249 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
250 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
251 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
252 than the version in oldstable.
253 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
254 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
255 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
256 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
257 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
258 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
259 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
260 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
261 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
262 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
263 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
264 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
265 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
266 package. (Closes: #609160)
268 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
270 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
273 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
278 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
279 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
283 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
288 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
311 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
313 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
316 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
318 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
319 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
330 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
335 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
336 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
340 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
345 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
346 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
350 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
351 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
355 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
356 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
360 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
362 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
363 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
364 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
365 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
366 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
367 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
368 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
369 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
370 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
372 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
373 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
374 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
375 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
376 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
377 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
379 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
381 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
387 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
390 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
391 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
392 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
393 and distribution license' (three times).
394 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
395 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
400 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
402 Proposed by Santiago Vila
403 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
410 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
411 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
415 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
416 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
417 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
420 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
427 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
431 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
434 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
437 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
439 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
443 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
445 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
446 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
447 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
456 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
457 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
461 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
466 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
472 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
473 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
474 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
477 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
478 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
483 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
484 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
488 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
489 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
490 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
491 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
492 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
493 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
494 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
495 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
496 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
497 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
498 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
499 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
500 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
501 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
502 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
503 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
504 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
505 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
506 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
507 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
508 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
509 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
510 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
511 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
512 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
513 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
514 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
515 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
516 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
517 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
518 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
519 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
521 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
523 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
525 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
529 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
531 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
532 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
536 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
539 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
540 Wording: Steve Langasek.
541 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
542 Seconded: Julien Cristau
543 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
546 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
547 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
548 Seconded: Russ Allbery
549 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
552 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
553 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
554 Seconded: Russ Allbery
556 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
557 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
558 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
559 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
560 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
561 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
562 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
566 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
567 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
568 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
569 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
570 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
571 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
572 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
574 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
575 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
576 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
577 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
578 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
579 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
580 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
583 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
584 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
585 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
586 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
587 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
589 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
592 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
596 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
597 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
600 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
602 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
605 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
609 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
610 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
614 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
615 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
619 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
620 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
623 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
624 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
632 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
633 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
638 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
642 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
647 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
648 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
652 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
653 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
657 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
658 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
659 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
660 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
661 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
662 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
663 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
664 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
665 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
666 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
667 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
668 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
669 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
670 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
671 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
673 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
674 Source field descriptions.
675 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
676 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
677 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
678 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
679 description says otherwise.
681 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
683 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
687 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
690 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
691 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
693 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
694 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
698 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
699 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
703 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
704 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
708 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
709 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
710 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
711 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
715 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
716 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
717 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
718 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
719 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
721 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
722 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
726 * Add myself to Uploaders.
729 * Add myself to Uploaders.
730 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
732 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
733 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
734 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
736 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
738 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
741 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
746 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
748 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
750 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
751 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
755 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
756 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
758 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
760 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
761 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
765 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
766 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
770 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
771 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
773 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
775 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
776 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
778 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
780 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
781 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
782 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
785 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
786 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
787 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
790 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
791 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
794 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
796 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
797 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
798 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
799 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
800 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
801 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
802 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
803 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
804 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
805 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
806 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
807 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
808 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
809 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
810 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
811 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
812 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
813 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
814 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
815 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
816 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
817 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
818 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
819 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
820 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
821 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
822 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
823 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
824 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
825 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
827 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
828 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
829 links was completed long ago.
830 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
832 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
834 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
837 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
839 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
841 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
844 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
845 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
846 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
847 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
848 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
849 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
850 Millan (Closes: #209008).
851 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
852 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
854 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
856 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
858 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
859 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
860 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
861 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
862 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
863 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
864 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
866 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
867 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
868 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
869 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
871 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
872 Küster (Closes: #403391).
873 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
874 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
875 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
876 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
877 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
878 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
882 Closes: #186700, #458910
883 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
884 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
888 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
889 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
890 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
891 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
892 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
893 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
894 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
896 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
897 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
899 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
900 * Add an md5sums control file.
901 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
902 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
903 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
904 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
905 currently part of policy.
906 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
907 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
908 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
911 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
913 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
916 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
917 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
918 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
919 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
920 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
921 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
922 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
923 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
924 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
926 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
927 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
928 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
929 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
930 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
932 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
934 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
935 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
936 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
938 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
939 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
940 list?" (Closes: #412634).
941 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
942 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
943 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
944 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
945 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
946 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
947 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
948 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
949 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
950 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
951 debconf specification.
952 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
953 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
955 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
957 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
960 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
962 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
963 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
965 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
968 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
969 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
970 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
971 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
973 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
974 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
975 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
976 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
977 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
978 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
979 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
980 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
981 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
982 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
983 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
984 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
985 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
986 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
987 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
993 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
994 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
995 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
997 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
998 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
999 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1001 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1003 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1006 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1007 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1009 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1011 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1014 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1015 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1016 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1018 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1020 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1022 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1024 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1025 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1027 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1028 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1029 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1031 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1033 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1036 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1037 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1038 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1041 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1043 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1045 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1048 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1049 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1050 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1051 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1052 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1053 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1054 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1055 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1056 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1058 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1059 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1060 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1061 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1062 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1063 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1065 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1067 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1068 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1071 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1073 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1076 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1078 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1079 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1080 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1081 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1082 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1083 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1084 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1085 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1086 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1087 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1088 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1089 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1090 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1091 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1092 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1093 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1094 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1095 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1096 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1097 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1098 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1099 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1100 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1101 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1102 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1104 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1105 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1106 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1107 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1109 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1110 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1111 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1112 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1113 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1114 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1115 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1116 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1117 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1118 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1119 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1122 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1125 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1127 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1128 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1129 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1130 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1131 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1132 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1133 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1134 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1136 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1138 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1142 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1143 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1144 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1146 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1147 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1148 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1150 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1151 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1152 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1156 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1158 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1159 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1161 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1163 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1165 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1166 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1167 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1169 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1170 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1171 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1173 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1176 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1178 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1181 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1182 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1183 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1185 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1186 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1188 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1190 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1192 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1196 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1197 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1198 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1199 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1201 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1202 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1203 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1204 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1207 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1208 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1210 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1211 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1212 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1214 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1215 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1216 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1218 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1219 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1220 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1221 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1224 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1225 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1226 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1228 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1229 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1230 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1232 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1233 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1234 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1235 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1237 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1238 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1239 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1241 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1242 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1243 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1244 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1245 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1246 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1247 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1248 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1250 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1252 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1256 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1257 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1258 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1259 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1260 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1261 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1262 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1263 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1265 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1266 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1267 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1268 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1269 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1270 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1271 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1272 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1273 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1274 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1275 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1276 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1278 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1279 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1280 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1284 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1285 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1288 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1289 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1290 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1292 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1293 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1294 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1295 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1296 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1297 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1299 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1300 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1302 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1303 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1304 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1305 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1306 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1307 Closes: #185943, #237049
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1311 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1317 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1318 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1319 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1320 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1321 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1322 running. closes: Bug#187250
1323 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1324 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1325 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1326 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1327 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1328 user closes: Bug#176506
1330 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1332 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1336 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1337 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1338 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1339 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1340 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1341 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1342 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1343 deb-building toolchain.
1344 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1345 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1346 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1347 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1348 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1349 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1350 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1351 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1352 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1353 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1354 sections about changelog files.
1356 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1357 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1358 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1359 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1360 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1361 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1363 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1364 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1365 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1366 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1367 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1368 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1369 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1370 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1371 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1372 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1373 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1374 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1375 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1376 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1377 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1378 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1379 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1380 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1381 for the restructuring
1383 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1385 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1390 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1391 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1392 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1393 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1394 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1395 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1397 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1398 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1399 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1400 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1401 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1402 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1403 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1405 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1406 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1407 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1408 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1410 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1412 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1416 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1417 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1418 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1419 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1420 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1422 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1423 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1424 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1425 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1427 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1428 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1429 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1430 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1431 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1432 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1433 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1434 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1435 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1436 offtopic stuff, too.
1437 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1438 script should start it, closes: #60979
1439 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1440 "should", closes: #170019
1441 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1442 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1443 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1444 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1445 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1446 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1447 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1448 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1451 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1453 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1457 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1458 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1459 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1460 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1461 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1462 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1463 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1464 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1466 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1467 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1468 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1469 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1470 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1471 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1472 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1473 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1474 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1476 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1477 file, closes: Bug#65764
1479 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1481 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1484 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1485 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1486 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1487 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1488 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1489 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1490 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1491 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1492 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1493 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1494 details. closes: Bug#133030
1495 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1496 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1497 parts of Bug#161455.
1499 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1501 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1504 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1505 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1506 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1507 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1508 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1509 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1510 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1511 not. closes: Bug#139820
1512 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1513 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1514 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1515 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1516 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1517 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1518 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1519 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1520 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1521 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1523 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1525 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1526 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1527 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1528 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1529 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1530 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1531 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1532 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1533 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1534 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1535 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1536 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1537 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1538 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1539 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1540 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1541 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1542 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1543 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1544 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1546 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1547 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1548 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1549 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1550 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1551 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1552 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1554 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1555 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1556 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1557 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1558 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1559 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1560 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1561 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1562 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1564 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1566 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1569 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1570 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1571 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1572 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1573 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1574 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1575 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1576 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1577 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1578 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1579 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1580 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1581 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1582 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1583 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1584 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1585 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1586 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1587 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1588 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1589 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1590 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1592 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1594 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1597 medium, high, emergency.
1598 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1599 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1600 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1601 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1602 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1605 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1606 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1607 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1609 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1610 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1611 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1612 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1613 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1614 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1615 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1618 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1620 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1623 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1624 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1625 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1627 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1628 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1629 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1630 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1631 debian/rules to do this
1632 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1633 patches are incorporated upstream
1634 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1635 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1636 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1637 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1638 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1639 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1641 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1642 system closes: Bug#91249
1643 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1644 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1645 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1646 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1647 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1648 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1649 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1650 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1651 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1652 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1653 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1654 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1655 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1657 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1659 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1662 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1663 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1664 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1666 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1667 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1668 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1670 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1673 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1675 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1678 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1679 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1680 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1681 package for the time being
1682 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1683 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1684 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1685 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1686 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1687 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1688 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1689 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1690 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1691 Build-Depends arch syntax
1692 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1694 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1695 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1697 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1698 from policy maintenance duties.
1699 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1700 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1702 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1704 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1708 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1710 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1713 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1714 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1715 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1716 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1717 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1718 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1719 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1720 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1721 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1722 minor version number for this
1723 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1724 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1725 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1726 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1727 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1728 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1729 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1730 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1731 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1733 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1735 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1738 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1739 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1740 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1741 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1743 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1745 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1746 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1747 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1748 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1749 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1750 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1751 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1752 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1753 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1754 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1755 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1756 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1757 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1758 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1759 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1760 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1763 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1765 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1768 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1770 * Document the Enhances relationship
1771 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1772 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1773 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1774 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1775 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1776 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1778 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1780 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1781 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1782 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1783 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1785 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1786 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1787 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1788 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1789 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1791 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1793 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1796 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1797 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1799 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1800 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1801 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1802 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1803 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1804 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1805 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1806 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1807 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1809 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1813 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1816 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1817 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1818 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1819 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1820 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1821 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1822 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1823 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1824 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1825 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1826 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1827 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1828 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1829 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1830 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1831 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1832 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1833 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1834 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1835 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1836 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1838 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1839 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1841 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1843 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1846 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1847 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1848 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1849 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1850 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1851 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1852 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1853 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1854 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1855 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1856 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1857 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1858 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1859 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1860 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1861 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1862 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1863 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1864 list closes: Bug#53756
1865 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1866 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1867 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1868 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1869 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1870 policy closes: Bug#53760
1871 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1872 policy closes: Bug#53761
1873 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1874 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1875 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1876 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1877 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1878 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1879 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1880 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1881 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1882 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1883 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1885 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1886 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1887 to install with older fileutils.
1888 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1889 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1890 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1891 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1893 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1894 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1896 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1898 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1901 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1903 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1905 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1908 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1910 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1913 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1916 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1918 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1920 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1922 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1925 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1927 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1929 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1932 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1933 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1934 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1935 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1936 directoried (closes: #41547)
1937 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1938 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1939 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1940 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1941 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1942 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1943 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1944 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1945 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1946 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1947 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1949 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1950 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1951 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1952 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1953 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1954 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1955 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1957 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1958 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1959 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1960 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1962 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1964 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1966 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1967 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1969 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1971 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1974 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1976 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1978 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1981 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1983 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1984 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1985 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1986 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1987 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1988 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1989 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1990 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1991 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1992 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1993 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1994 this closes: Bug#38612
1995 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1996 before. closes: Bug#40864
1998 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2000 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2003 officially uploaded.
2004 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2006 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2007 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2008 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2010 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2011 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2012 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2013 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2014 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2015 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2017 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2018 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2019 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2021 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2023 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2024 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2025 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2026 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2027 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2029 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2031 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2034 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2035 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2036 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2037 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2038 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2039 there). closes: Bug#34233
2040 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2041 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2042 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2043 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2044 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2046 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2048 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2051 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2052 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2053 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2056 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2057 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2058 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2059 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2060 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2063 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2064 number. closes: BUG#25911
2066 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2067 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2068 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2069 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2070 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2071 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2073 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2074 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2075 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2078 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2079 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2080 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2082 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2083 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2084 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2085 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2087 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2088 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2089 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2091 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2093 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2094 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2095 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2096 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2097 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2098 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2099 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2100 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2103 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2105 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2106 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2111 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2115 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2117 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2120 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2121 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2122 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2123 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2124 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2125 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2126 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2128 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2129 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2131 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2133 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2135 * non-maintainer release
2136 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2137 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2139 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2140 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2141 * no content changes
2142 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2144 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2146 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2150 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2152 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2156 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2157 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2158 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2160 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2161 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2163 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2164 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2165 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2166 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2168 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2169 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2170 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2171 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2172 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2173 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2174 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2176 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2177 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2178 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2181 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2182 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2183 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2185 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2186 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2187 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2189 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2190 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2192 * New version numbering scheme:
2194 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2195 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2196 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2199 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2200 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2201 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2202 differ between the manuals.
2204 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2205 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2206 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2207 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2209 * Packaging changes:
2211 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2212 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2214 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2216 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2218 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2222 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2223 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2224 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2226 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2227 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2230 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2231 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2232 file extension as the referenced file
2234 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2235 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2237 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2238 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2239 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2240 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2243 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2244 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2245 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2247 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2248 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2249 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2250 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2253 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2254 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2257 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2258 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2259 reasonable default configuration
2261 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2262 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2263 by all news servers and clients
2265 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2266 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2267 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2268 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2269 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2271 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2272 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2275 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2277 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2278 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2280 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2283 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2284 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2286 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2287 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2289 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2291 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2293 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2296 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2297 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2298 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2300 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2302 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2303 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2304 * Don't use debstd anymore
2306 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2308 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2311 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2312 contrib/non-free policy
2313 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2314 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2315 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2316 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2317 - new section about `Daemons'
2318 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2319 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2320 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2321 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2322 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2323 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2324 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2325 * SGML source code included in package
2326 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2328 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2330 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2333 - completely reworked structure
2334 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2335 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2336 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2337 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2338 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2339 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2340 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2341 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2342 - mention "orphaned packages"
2343 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2344 distributions' policy
2345 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2346 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2347 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2348 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2349 - added section about arch spec strings
2350 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2351 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2352 - added section about "menus"
2353 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2354 the new documentation policy soon
2355 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2356 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2358 - added section about editors and pagers
2359 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2360 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2361 - added section about device files
2362 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2363 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2364 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2366 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2367 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2368 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2369 - Added new section about obsolete names
2370 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2371 * Fixed package's description
2373 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2375 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2379 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2381 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2384 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2385 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2386 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2388 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2390 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2393 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2394 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2396 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2397 and upload it "byhand" too.
2399 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2401 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2405 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2406 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2407 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2408 functionality must not have the same name.
2409 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2410 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2411 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2412 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2413 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2414 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2415 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2417 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2418 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2419 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2420 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2421 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2422 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2423 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2424 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2427 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2429 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2431 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2433 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2434 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2435 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2436 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2437 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2440 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2442 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2444 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2446 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2447 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2448 description of deb file format.
2449 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2450 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2452 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2454 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2455 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2457 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2459 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2461 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2462 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2463 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2464 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2465 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2466 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2467 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2468 packages in section on Procedure
2469 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2470 a package maintainer
2471 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2472 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2473 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2475 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2476 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2477 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2478 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2479 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2480 on various shlib files
2481 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2482 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2483 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2485 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2487 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2489 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2490 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2491 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2493 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2494 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2495 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2496 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2497 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2499 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2501 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2503 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2505 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2507 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2508 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2509 compatibility go in contrib.
2511 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2512 instructions in policy manual.
2513 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2516 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2518 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2520 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2521 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2522 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2523 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2525 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2526 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2529 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2531 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2533 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2534 * More detail about changelog format names.
2536 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2537 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2541 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2543 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2545 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2547 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2549 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2551 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2553 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2555 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2556 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2557 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2559 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2561 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2563 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2565 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2567 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2571 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100