1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
5 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
11 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:01:58 +0100
13 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
16 for the help. Closes: #769219
18 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
20 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
23 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
24 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
26 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
27 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
28 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
29 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
30 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
31 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
32 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
33 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
34 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
36 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
39 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
45 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
46 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
50 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
51 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
55 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
56 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
60 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
62 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
67 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
68 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
70 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
73 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
77 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
80 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
83 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
87 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
88 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
89 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
92 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
93 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
95 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
98 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
99 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
100 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
101 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
103 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
108 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
111 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
115 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
116 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
122 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
126 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
127 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
129 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
134 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
135 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
139 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
143 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
144 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
146 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
148 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
149 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
150 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
154 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
155 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
159 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
160 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
162 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
165 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
166 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
169 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
170 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
171 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
175 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
176 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
177 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
179 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
180 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
181 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
182 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
183 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
184 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
185 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
186 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
187 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
188 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
189 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
190 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
192 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
193 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
194 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
195 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
197 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
199 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
201 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
202 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
203 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
205 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
206 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
207 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
213 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
214 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
219 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
223 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
224 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
225 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
226 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
231 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
236 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
238 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
241 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
242 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
243 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
246 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
247 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
252 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
254 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
257 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
258 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
259 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
260 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
262 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
263 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
264 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
265 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
266 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
267 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
268 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
269 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
270 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
271 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
272 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
273 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
274 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
275 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
276 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
277 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
278 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
280 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
281 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
282 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
283 good to know which version one is looking at.
284 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
285 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
286 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
287 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
288 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
289 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
290 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
292 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
293 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
294 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
295 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
296 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
298 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
299 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
300 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
302 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
303 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
304 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
305 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
307 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
309 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
313 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
314 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
315 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
316 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
317 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
318 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
319 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
320 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
321 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
322 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
327 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
328 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
333 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
334 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
338 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
340 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
345 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
346 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
349 Closes: #620870, #532120
350 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
351 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
356 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
357 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
358 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
362 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
363 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
364 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
365 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
366 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
368 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
369 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
370 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
371 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
372 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
373 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
374 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
375 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
376 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
377 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
378 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
379 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
380 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
381 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
382 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
383 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
385 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
387 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
388 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
389 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
390 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
391 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
392 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
393 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
394 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
395 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
396 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
399 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
401 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
402 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
403 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
409 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
410 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
412 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
413 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
414 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
415 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
420 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
424 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
425 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
426 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
429 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
430 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
431 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
433 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
434 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
440 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
441 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
442 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
445 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
446 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
451 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
452 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
453 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
454 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
457 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
458 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
459 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
462 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
463 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
468 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
470 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
476 Closes: #459868, #581011
477 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
480 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
482 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
483 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
485 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
488 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
490 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
492 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
493 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
497 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
498 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
501 Closes: #501930, #593909
502 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
503 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
507 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
508 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
509 machine. (Closes: #591857)
510 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
511 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
512 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
513 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
514 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
515 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
516 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
517 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
518 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
519 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
521 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
522 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
523 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
524 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
525 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
526 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
527 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
528 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
529 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
530 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
531 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
532 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
533 than the version in oldstable.
534 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
535 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
536 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
537 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
538 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
539 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
540 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
541 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
542 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
543 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
544 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
545 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
546 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
547 package. (Closes: #609160)
549 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
551 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
554 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
555 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
556 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
559 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
560 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
564 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
565 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
569 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
570 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
574 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
575 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
579 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
584 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
592 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
594 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
595 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
597 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
599 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
605 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
611 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
616 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
617 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
621 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
622 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
626 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
631 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
636 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
637 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
641 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
643 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
644 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
645 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
646 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
647 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
648 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
649 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
650 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
651 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
653 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
654 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
655 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
656 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
657 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
658 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
660 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
662 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
668 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
671 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
672 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
673 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
674 and distribution license' (three times).
675 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
676 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
681 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
683 Proposed by Santiago Vila
684 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
691 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
692 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
696 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
697 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
701 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
703 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
709 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
712 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
714 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
715 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
718 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
724 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
726 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
727 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
728 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
731 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
732 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
737 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
738 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
742 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
743 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
747 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
748 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
749 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
753 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
754 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
755 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
758 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
759 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
764 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
765 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
769 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
770 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
771 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
772 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
773 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
774 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
775 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
776 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
777 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
778 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
779 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
780 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
781 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
782 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
783 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
784 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
785 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
786 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
787 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
788 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
789 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
790 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
791 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
792 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
793 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
794 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
795 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
796 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
797 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
798 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
799 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
800 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
802 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
804 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
806 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
810 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
812 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
813 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
817 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
820 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
821 Wording: Steve Langasek.
822 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
823 Seconded: Julien Cristau
824 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
827 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
828 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
829 Seconded: Russ Allbery
830 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
833 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
834 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
835 Seconded: Russ Allbery
837 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
838 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
839 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
840 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
841 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
842 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
843 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
844 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
847 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
848 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
849 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
850 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
851 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
852 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
853 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
854 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
855 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
856 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
857 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
858 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
859 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
860 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
861 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
864 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
865 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
866 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
867 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
868 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
870 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
873 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
874 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
877 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
878 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
881 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
883 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
886 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
890 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
891 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
895 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
896 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
900 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
901 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
904 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
905 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
907 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
908 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
913 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
914 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
918 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
919 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
921 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
923 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
924 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
925 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
928 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
929 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
931 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
933 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
934 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
938 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
939 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
940 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
941 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
942 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
943 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
944 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
945 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
946 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
947 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
948 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
949 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
950 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
951 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
952 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
954 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
955 Source field descriptions.
956 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
957 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
958 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
959 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
960 description says otherwise.
962 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
964 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
968 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
969 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
970 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
971 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
972 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
974 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
975 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
976 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
977 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
979 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
980 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
982 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
984 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
985 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
986 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
987 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
989 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
990 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
991 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
992 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
996 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
997 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
998 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
999 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1000 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1002 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1003 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1005 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1007 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1010 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1011 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1013 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1014 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1015 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1017 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1019 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1022 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1023 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1026 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1027 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1028 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1029 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1031 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1032 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1033 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1034 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1036 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1037 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1038 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1039 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1041 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1042 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1043 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1044 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1046 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1047 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1048 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1049 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1051 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1052 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1053 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1054 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1056 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1057 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1058 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1059 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1061 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1062 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1063 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1064 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1066 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1067 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1069 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1071 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1072 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1073 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1074 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1075 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1077 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1078 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1079 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1080 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1081 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1082 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1083 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1084 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1085 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1086 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1087 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1088 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1089 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1090 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1091 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1092 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1093 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1094 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1095 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1096 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1097 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1098 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1099 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1100 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1101 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1102 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1103 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1104 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1105 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1106 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1108 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1109 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1110 links was completed long ago.
1111 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1113 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1115 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1118 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1120 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1122 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1125 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1126 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1127 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1128 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1129 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1130 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1131 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1132 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1133 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1135 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1137 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1139 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1140 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1141 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1142 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1143 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1144 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1145 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1147 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1148 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1149 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1150 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1152 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1153 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1154 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1155 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1156 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1157 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1158 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1160 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1161 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1162 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1163 Closes: #186700, #458910
1164 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1165 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1166 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1168 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1169 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1170 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1171 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1172 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1173 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1174 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1175 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1177 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1178 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1180 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1181 * Add an md5sums control file.
1182 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1183 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1184 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1185 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1186 currently part of policy.
1187 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1188 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1189 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1192 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1194 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1197 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1198 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1199 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1200 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1201 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1202 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1203 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1204 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1205 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1207 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1208 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1209 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1210 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1211 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1213 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1215 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1216 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1217 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1219 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1220 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1221 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1222 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1223 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1224 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1225 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1226 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1227 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1228 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1229 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1230 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1231 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1232 debconf specification.
1233 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1234 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1236 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1238 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1241 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1242 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1243 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1244 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1246 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1249 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1250 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1251 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1252 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1254 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1255 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1256 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1257 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1258 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1259 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1260 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1261 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1262 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1263 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1264 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1265 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1266 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1268 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1274 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1275 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1276 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1278 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1279 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1280 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1282 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1284 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1287 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1288 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1290 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1292 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1295 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1296 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1297 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1299 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1301 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1303 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1305 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1306 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1307 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1308 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1309 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1310 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1312 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1314 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1317 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1318 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1319 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1322 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1324 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1326 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1329 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1330 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1331 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1332 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1333 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1334 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1335 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1336 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1337 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1339 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1340 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1342 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1343 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1344 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1346 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1348 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1349 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1352 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1354 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1357 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1359 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1360 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1361 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1362 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1363 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1364 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1365 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1366 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1367 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1368 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1369 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1370 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1371 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1372 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1373 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1374 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1375 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1377 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1378 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1379 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1380 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1381 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1382 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1383 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1385 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1386 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1387 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1388 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1389 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1390 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1391 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1392 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1393 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1394 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1395 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1396 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1397 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1398 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1399 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1400 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1403 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1406 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1408 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1409 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1410 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1411 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1412 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1413 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1414 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1415 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1417 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1419 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1423 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1425 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1427 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1428 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1429 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1431 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1432 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1433 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1436 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1437 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1439 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1440 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1442 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1444 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1445 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1446 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1448 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1450 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1451 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1452 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1454 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1457 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1459 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1462 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1463 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1464 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1466 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1467 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1469 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1471 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1473 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1477 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1478 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1479 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1480 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1481 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1482 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1483 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1484 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1485 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1488 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1489 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1491 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1492 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1493 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1495 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1496 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1497 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1499 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1500 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1501 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1502 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1504 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1505 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1506 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1507 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1508 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1509 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1510 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1511 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1513 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1514 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1515 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1516 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1517 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1518 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1519 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1520 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1522 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1523 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1524 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1525 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1526 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1527 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1528 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1529 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1531 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1533 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1537 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1538 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1539 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1540 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1541 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1542 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1543 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1544 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1546 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1547 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1548 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1549 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1550 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1551 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1552 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1553 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1554 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1555 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1556 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1557 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1558 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1559 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1560 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1561 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1562 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1564 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1565 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1566 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1569 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1570 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1571 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1573 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1574 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1575 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1576 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1577 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1578 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1580 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1581 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1583 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1584 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1585 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1586 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1587 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1588 Closes: #185943, #237049
1590 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1592 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1598 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1599 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1600 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1601 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1602 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1603 running. closes: Bug#187250
1604 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1605 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1606 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1607 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1608 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1609 user closes: Bug#176506
1611 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1613 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1617 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1618 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1619 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1620 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1621 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1622 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1623 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1624 deb-building toolchain.
1625 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1626 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1627 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1628 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1629 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1630 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1631 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1632 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1633 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1634 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1635 sections about changelog files.
1637 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1638 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1639 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1640 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1641 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1642 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1644 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1645 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1646 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1647 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1648 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1649 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1650 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1651 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1652 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1653 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1654 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1655 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1656 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1657 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1658 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1659 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1660 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1661 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1662 for the restructuring
1664 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1666 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1671 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1672 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1673 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1674 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1675 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1676 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1678 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1679 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1680 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1681 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1682 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1683 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1684 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1686 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1687 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1688 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1689 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1691 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1693 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1697 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1698 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1699 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1700 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1701 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1703 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1704 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1705 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1706 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1708 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1709 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1710 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1711 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1712 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1713 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1714 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1715 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1716 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1717 offtopic stuff, too.
1718 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1719 script should start it, closes: #60979
1720 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1721 "should", closes: #170019
1722 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1723 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1724 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1725 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1726 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1727 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1728 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1729 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1732 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1734 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1738 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1739 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1740 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1741 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1742 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1743 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1744 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1745 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1747 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1748 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1749 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1750 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1751 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1752 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1753 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1754 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1755 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1757 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1758 file, closes: Bug#65764
1760 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1762 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1765 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1766 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1767 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1768 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1769 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1770 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1771 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1772 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1773 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1774 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1775 details. closes: Bug#133030
1776 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1777 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1778 parts of Bug#161455.
1780 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1782 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1785 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1786 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1787 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1788 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1789 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1790 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1791 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1792 not. closes: Bug#139820
1793 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1794 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1795 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1796 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1797 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1798 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1799 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1800 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1801 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1802 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1804 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1806 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1807 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1808 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1809 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1810 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1811 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1812 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1813 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1814 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1815 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1816 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1817 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1818 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1819 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1820 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1821 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1822 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1823 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1824 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1825 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1827 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1828 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1829 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1830 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1831 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1832 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1833 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1835 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1836 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1837 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1838 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1839 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1840 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1841 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1842 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1843 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1847 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1850 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1851 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1852 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1853 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1854 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1855 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1856 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1857 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1858 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1859 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1860 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1861 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1862 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1863 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1864 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1865 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1866 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1867 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1868 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1869 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1870 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1871 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1875 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1878 medium, high, emergency.
1879 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1880 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1881 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1882 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1883 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1886 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1887 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1888 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1890 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1891 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1892 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1893 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1894 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1895 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1896 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1899 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1901 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1904 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1905 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1906 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1908 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1909 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1910 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1911 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1912 debian/rules to do this
1913 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1914 patches are incorporated upstream
1915 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1916 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1917 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1918 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1919 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1920 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1922 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1923 system closes: Bug#91249
1924 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1925 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1926 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1927 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1928 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1929 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1930 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1931 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1932 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1933 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1934 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1935 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1936 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1938 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1940 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1943 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1944 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1945 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1947 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1948 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1949 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1951 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1954 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1956 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1959 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1960 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1961 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1962 package for the time being
1963 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1964 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1965 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1966 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1967 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1968 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1969 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1970 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1971 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1972 Build-Depends arch syntax
1973 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1975 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1976 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1978 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1979 from policy maintenance duties.
1980 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1981 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1983 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1985 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1989 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1991 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1994 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1995 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1996 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1997 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1998 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1999 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2000 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2001 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2002 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2003 minor version number for this
2004 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2005 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2006 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2007 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2008 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2009 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2010 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2011 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2012 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2014 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2016 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2019 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2020 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2021 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2022 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2024 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2026 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2027 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2028 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2029 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2030 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2031 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2032 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2033 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2034 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2035 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2036 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2037 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2038 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2039 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2040 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2041 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2044 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2046 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2049 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2051 * Document the Enhances relationship
2052 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2053 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2054 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2055 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2056 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2057 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2059 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2061 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2062 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2063 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2064 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2066 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2067 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2068 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2069 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2070 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2072 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2074 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2077 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2078 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2080 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2081 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2082 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2083 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2084 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2085 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2086 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2087 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2088 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2090 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2092 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2094 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2097 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2098 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2099 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2100 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2101 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2102 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2103 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2104 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2105 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2106 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2107 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2108 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2109 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2110 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2111 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2112 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2113 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2114 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2115 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2116 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2117 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2119 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2120 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2122 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2124 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2127 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2128 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2129 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2130 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2131 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2132 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2133 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2134 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2135 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2136 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2137 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2138 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2139 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2140 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2141 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2142 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2143 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2144 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2145 list closes: Bug#53756
2146 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2147 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2148 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2149 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2150 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2151 policy closes: Bug#53760
2152 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2153 policy closes: Bug#53761
2154 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2155 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2156 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2157 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2158 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2159 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2160 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2161 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2162 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2163 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2164 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2166 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2167 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2168 to install with older fileutils.
2169 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2170 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2171 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2172 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2174 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2175 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2179 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2182 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2184 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2186 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2189 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2191 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2194 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2197 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2199 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2201 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2203 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2206 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2208 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2210 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2213 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2214 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2215 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2216 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2217 directoried (closes: #41547)
2218 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2219 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2220 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2221 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2222 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2223 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2224 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2225 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2226 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2227 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2228 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2230 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2231 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2232 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2233 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2234 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2235 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2236 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2238 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2239 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2240 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2241 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2243 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2245 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2247 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2248 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2250 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2252 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2255 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2257 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2259 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2262 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2264 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2265 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2266 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2267 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2268 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2269 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2270 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2271 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2272 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2273 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2274 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2275 this closes: Bug#38612
2276 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2277 before. closes: Bug#40864
2279 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2281 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2284 officially uploaded.
2285 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2287 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2288 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2289 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2291 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2292 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2293 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2294 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2295 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2296 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2298 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2299 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2300 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2302 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2304 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2305 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2306 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2307 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2308 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2310 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2312 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2315 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2316 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2317 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2318 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2319 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2320 there). closes: Bug#34233
2321 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2322 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2323 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2324 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2325 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2327 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2329 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2332 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2333 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2334 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2337 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2338 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2339 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2340 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2341 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2344 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2345 number. closes: BUG#25911
2347 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2348 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2349 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2350 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2351 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2352 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2354 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2355 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2356 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2359 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2360 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2361 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2363 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2364 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2365 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2366 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2368 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2369 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2370 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2372 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2374 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2375 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2376 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2377 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2378 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2379 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2380 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2381 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2384 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2386 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2387 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2390 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2392 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2396 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2398 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2401 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2402 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2403 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2404 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2405 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2406 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2407 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2409 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2410 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2412 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2414 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2416 * non-maintainer release
2417 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2418 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2420 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2421 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2422 * no content changes
2423 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2425 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2427 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2431 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2433 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2437 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2438 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2439 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2441 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2442 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2444 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2445 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2446 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2447 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2449 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2450 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2451 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2452 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2453 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2454 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2455 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2457 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2458 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2459 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2462 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2463 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2464 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2466 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2467 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2468 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2470 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2471 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2473 * New version numbering scheme:
2475 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2476 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2477 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2480 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2481 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2482 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2483 differ between the manuals.
2485 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2486 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2487 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2488 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2490 * Packaging changes:
2492 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2493 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2495 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2497 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2499 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2503 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2504 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2505 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2507 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2508 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2511 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2512 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2513 file extension as the referenced file
2515 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2516 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2518 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2519 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2520 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2521 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2524 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2525 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2526 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2528 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2529 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2530 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2531 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2534 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2535 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2538 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2539 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2540 reasonable default configuration
2542 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2543 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2544 by all news servers and clients
2546 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2547 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2548 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2549 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2550 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2552 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2553 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2556 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2558 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2559 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2561 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2564 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2565 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2567 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2568 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2570 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2572 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2574 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2577 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2578 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2579 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2581 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2583 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2584 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2585 * Don't use debstd anymore
2587 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2589 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2592 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2593 contrib/non-free policy
2594 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2595 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2596 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2597 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2598 - new section about `Daemons'
2599 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2600 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2601 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2602 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2603 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2604 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2605 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2606 * SGML source code included in package
2607 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2609 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2611 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2614 - completely reworked structure
2615 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2616 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2617 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2618 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2619 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2620 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2621 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2622 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2623 - mention "orphaned packages"
2624 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2625 distributions' policy
2626 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2627 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2628 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2629 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2630 - added section about arch spec strings
2631 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2632 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2633 - added section about "menus"
2634 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2635 the new documentation policy soon
2636 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2637 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2639 - added section about editors and pagers
2640 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2641 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2642 - added section about device files
2643 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2644 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2645 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2647 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2648 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2649 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2650 - Added new section about obsolete names
2651 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2652 * Fixed package's description
2654 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2656 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2660 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2662 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2665 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2666 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2667 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2669 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2671 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2674 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2675 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2677 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2678 and upload it "byhand" too.
2680 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2682 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2686 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2687 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2688 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2689 functionality must not have the same name.
2690 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2691 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2692 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2693 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2694 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2695 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2696 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2698 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2699 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2700 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2701 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2702 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2703 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2704 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2705 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2708 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2710 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2712 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2714 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2715 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2716 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2717 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2718 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2721 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2723 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2725 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2727 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2728 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2729 description of deb file format.
2730 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2731 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2733 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2735 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2736 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2738 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2740 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2742 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2743 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2744 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2745 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2746 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2747 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2748 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2749 packages in section on Procedure
2750 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2751 a package maintainer
2752 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2753 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2754 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2756 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2757 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2758 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2759 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2760 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2761 on various shlib files
2762 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2763 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2764 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2766 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2768 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2770 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2771 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2772 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2774 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2775 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2776 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2777 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2778 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2780 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2782 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2784 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2786 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2788 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2789 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2790 compatibility go in contrib.
2792 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2793 instructions in policy manual.
2794 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2797 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2799 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2801 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2802 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2803 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2804 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2806 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2807 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2810 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2812 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2814 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2815 * More detail about changelog format names.
2817 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2818 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2824 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2826 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2828 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2830 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2832 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2834 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2836 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2837 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2838 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2840 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2842 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2844 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2846 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2848 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2852 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100