1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
5 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
6 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
7 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
8 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
9 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
10 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
11 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
16 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
17 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
22 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
23 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
27 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
29 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
38 Closes: #620870, #532120
39 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
40 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
45 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
46 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
51 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
52 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
53 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
54 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
55 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
57 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
58 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
59 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
60 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
61 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
62 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
63 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
64 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
65 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
66 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
67 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
68 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
69 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
70 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
71 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
72 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
74 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
76 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
77 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
78 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
79 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
80 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
81 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
82 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
83 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
84 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
85 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
88 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
90 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
91 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
92 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
98 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
99 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
101 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
102 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
103 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
104 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
109 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
113 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
114 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
115 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
118 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
119 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
120 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
122 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
123 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
129 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
130 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
131 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
134 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
135 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
140 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
141 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
142 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
143 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
146 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
147 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
148 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
151 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
152 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
157 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
159 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
165 Closes: #459868, #581011
166 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
167 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
169 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
172 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
174 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
176 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
177 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
179 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
181 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
187 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
190 Closes: #501930, #593909
191 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
196 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
197 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
198 machine. (Closes: #591857)
199 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
200 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
201 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
202 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
203 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
204 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
205 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
206 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
207 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
208 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
210 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
211 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
212 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
213 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
214 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
215 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
216 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
217 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
218 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
219 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
220 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
221 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
222 than the version in oldstable.
223 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
224 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
225 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
226 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
227 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
228 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
229 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
230 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
231 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
232 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
233 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
234 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
235 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
236 package. (Closes: #609160)
238 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
240 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
248 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
253 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
258 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
259 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
263 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
264 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
268 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
269 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
273 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
274 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
278 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
279 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
281 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
283 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
286 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
288 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
294 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
300 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
305 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
306 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
310 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
311 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
315 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
330 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
332 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
333 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
334 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
335 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
336 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
337 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
338 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
339 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
340 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
342 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
343 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
344 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
345 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
346 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
347 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
349 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
351 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
357 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
360 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
361 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
362 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
363 and distribution license' (three times).
364 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
365 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
370 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
372 Proposed by Santiago Vila
373 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
380 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
381 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
385 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
386 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
387 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
390 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
401 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
404 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
407 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
409 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
413 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
415 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
416 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
417 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
431 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
432 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
436 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
437 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
438 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
442 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
443 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
444 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
447 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
448 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
453 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
454 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
458 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
459 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
460 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
461 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
462 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
463 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
464 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
465 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
466 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
467 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
468 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
469 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
470 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
471 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
472 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
473 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
474 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
475 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
476 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
477 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
478 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
479 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
480 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
481 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
482 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
483 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
484 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
485 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
486 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
487 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
488 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
489 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
491 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
493 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
495 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
499 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
501 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
502 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
506 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
509 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
510 Wording: Steve Langasek.
511 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
512 Seconded: Julien Cristau
513 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
516 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
517 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
518 Seconded: Russ Allbery
519 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
522 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
523 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
524 Seconded: Russ Allbery
526 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
527 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
528 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
529 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
530 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
531 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
532 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
533 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
536 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
537 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
538 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
539 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
540 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
541 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
544 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
545 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
546 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
547 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
548 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
549 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
550 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
553 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
554 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
555 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
556 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
557 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
559 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
562 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
566 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
567 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
570 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
572 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
575 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
579 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
580 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
584 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
590 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
593 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
594 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
597 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
607 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
608 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
612 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
622 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
623 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
627 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
628 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
629 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
630 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
631 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
632 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
633 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
634 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
635 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
636 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
637 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
638 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
639 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
640 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
641 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
643 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
644 Source field descriptions.
645 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
646 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
647 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
648 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
649 description says otherwise.
651 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
653 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
657 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
660 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
661 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
663 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
664 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
668 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
669 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
673 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
674 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
678 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
679 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
680 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
681 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
685 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
686 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
687 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
688 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
689 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
691 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
692 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
696 * Add myself to Uploaders.
699 * Add myself to Uploaders.
700 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
702 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
703 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
704 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
706 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
708 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
711 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
716 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
718 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
725 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
726 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
728 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
730 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
731 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
735 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
736 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
740 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
741 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
743 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
745 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
746 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
748 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
750 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
751 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
752 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
755 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
756 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
760 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
761 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
764 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
766 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
767 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
768 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
769 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
770 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
771 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
772 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
773 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
774 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
775 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
776 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
777 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
778 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
779 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
780 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
781 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
782 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
783 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
784 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
785 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
786 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
787 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
788 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
789 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
790 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
791 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
792 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
793 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
794 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
795 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
797 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
798 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
799 links was completed long ago.
800 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
802 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
804 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
807 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
809 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
811 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
814 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
815 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
816 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
817 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
818 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
819 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
820 Millan (Closes: #209008).
821 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
822 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
824 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
826 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
828 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
829 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
830 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
831 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
832 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
833 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
834 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
836 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
837 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
838 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
839 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
841 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
842 Küster (Closes: #403391).
843 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
844 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
845 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
846 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
847 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
848 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
849 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
852 Closes: #186700, #458910
853 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
854 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
855 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
857 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
858 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
859 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
860 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
861 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
862 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
863 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
864 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
866 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
867 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
869 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
870 * Add an md5sums control file.
871 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
872 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
873 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
874 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
875 currently part of policy.
876 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
877 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
878 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
881 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
883 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
886 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
887 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
888 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
889 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
890 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
891 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
892 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
893 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
894 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
895 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
896 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
897 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
898 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
899 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
900 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
902 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
904 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
905 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
906 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
908 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
909 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
910 list?" (Closes: #412634).
911 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
912 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
913 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
914 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
915 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
916 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
917 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
918 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
919 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
920 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
921 debconf specification.
922 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
923 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
925 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
927 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
930 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
931 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
932 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
933 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
938 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
939 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
940 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
941 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
943 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
944 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
945 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
946 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
947 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
948 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
949 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
950 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
951 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
952 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
953 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
954 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
955 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
957 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
960 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
963 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
964 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
965 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
967 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
968 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
969 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
971 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
973 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
976 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
977 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
979 Polo (Closes: #372497).
980 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
981 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
984 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
985 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
986 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
988 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
989 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
990 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
991 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
992 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
994 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
995 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
996 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
997 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
998 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
999 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1001 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1003 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1006 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1007 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1008 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1011 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1013 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1015 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1018 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1019 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1020 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1021 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1022 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1023 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1024 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1025 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1026 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1028 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1029 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1031 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1032 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1033 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1035 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1037 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1038 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1041 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1043 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1046 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1048 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1049 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1050 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1051 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1052 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1053 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1054 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1055 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1056 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1057 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1058 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1059 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1060 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1061 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1062 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1063 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1064 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1066 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1067 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1068 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1069 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1070 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1071 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1072 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1074 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1075 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1076 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1077 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1078 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1079 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1080 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1081 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1082 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1083 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1084 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1085 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1086 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1087 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1088 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1089 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1091 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1092 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1094 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1095 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1097 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1098 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1099 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1100 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1101 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1102 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1103 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1104 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1106 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1108 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1112 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1114 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1116 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1117 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1118 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1120 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1121 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1122 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1126 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1128 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1129 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1131 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1133 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1135 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1137 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1139 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1140 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1141 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1143 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1146 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1148 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1151 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1152 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1153 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1155 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1156 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1158 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1160 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1162 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1166 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1167 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1168 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1169 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1170 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1171 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1172 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1173 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1174 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1177 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1178 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1181 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1182 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1183 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1184 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1185 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1186 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1188 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1189 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1190 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1191 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1194 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1195 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1196 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1198 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1199 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1200 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1202 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1203 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1204 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1205 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1207 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1208 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1209 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1210 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1211 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1212 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1213 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1214 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1215 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1216 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1217 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1218 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1220 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1222 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1226 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1227 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1228 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1229 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1230 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1231 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1232 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1233 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1235 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1236 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1237 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1238 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1239 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1240 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1241 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1242 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1243 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1244 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1245 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1246 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1248 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1249 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1250 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1254 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1255 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1258 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1259 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1260 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1262 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1263 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1264 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1265 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1266 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1267 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1269 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1270 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1272 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1273 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1274 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1275 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1276 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1277 Closes: #185943, #237049
1279 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1281 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1287 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1288 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1289 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1290 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1291 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1292 running. closes: Bug#187250
1293 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1294 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1295 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1296 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1297 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1298 user closes: Bug#176506
1300 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1302 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1306 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1307 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1308 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1309 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1310 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1311 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1312 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1313 deb-building toolchain.
1314 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1315 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1316 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1317 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1318 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1319 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1320 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1321 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1322 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1323 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1324 sections about changelog files.
1326 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1327 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1328 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1329 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1330 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1331 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1333 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1334 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1335 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1336 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1337 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1338 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1339 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1340 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1341 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1342 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1343 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1344 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1345 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1346 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1347 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1348 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1349 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1350 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1351 for the restructuring
1353 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1355 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1360 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1361 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1362 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1363 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1364 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1365 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1367 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1368 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1369 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1370 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1371 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1372 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1373 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1375 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1376 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1377 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1378 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1380 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1382 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1386 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1387 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1388 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1389 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1390 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1392 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1393 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1394 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1395 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1397 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1398 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1399 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1400 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1401 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1402 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1403 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1404 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1405 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1406 offtopic stuff, too.
1407 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1408 script should start it, closes: #60979
1409 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1410 "should", closes: #170019
1411 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1412 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1413 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1414 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1415 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1416 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1417 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1418 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1421 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1423 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1427 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1428 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1429 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1430 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1431 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1432 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1433 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1434 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1436 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1437 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1438 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1439 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1440 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1441 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1442 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1443 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1444 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1446 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1447 file, closes: Bug#65764
1449 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1451 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1454 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1455 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1456 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1457 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1458 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1459 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1460 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1461 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1462 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1463 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1464 details. closes: Bug#133030
1465 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1466 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1467 parts of Bug#161455.
1469 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1471 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1474 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1475 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1476 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1477 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1478 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1479 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1480 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1481 not. closes: Bug#139820
1482 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1483 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1484 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1485 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1486 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1487 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1488 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1489 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1490 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1491 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1493 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1495 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1496 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1497 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1498 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1499 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1500 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1501 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1502 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1503 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1504 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1505 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1506 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1507 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1508 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1509 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1510 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1511 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1512 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1513 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1514 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1516 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1517 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1518 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1519 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1520 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1521 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1522 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1524 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1525 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1526 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1527 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1528 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1529 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1530 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1531 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1532 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1534 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1536 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1539 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1540 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1541 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1542 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1543 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1544 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1545 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1546 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1547 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1548 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1549 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1550 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1551 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1552 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1553 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1554 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1555 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1556 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1557 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1558 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1559 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1560 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1562 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1564 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1567 medium, high, emergency.
1568 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1569 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1570 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1571 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1572 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1575 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1576 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1577 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1579 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1580 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1581 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1582 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1583 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1584 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1585 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1588 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1590 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1593 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1594 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1595 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1597 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1598 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1599 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1600 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1601 debian/rules to do this
1602 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1603 patches are incorporated upstream
1604 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1605 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1606 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1607 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1608 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1609 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1611 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1612 system closes: Bug#91249
1613 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1614 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1615 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1616 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1617 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1618 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1619 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1620 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1621 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1622 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1623 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1624 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1625 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1627 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1629 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1632 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1633 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1634 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1636 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1637 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1638 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1640 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1643 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1645 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1648 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1649 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1650 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1651 package for the time being
1652 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1653 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1654 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1655 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1656 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1657 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1658 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1659 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1660 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1661 Build-Depends arch syntax
1662 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1664 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1665 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1667 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1668 from policy maintenance duties.
1669 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1670 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1672 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1674 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1678 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1680 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1683 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1684 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1685 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1686 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1687 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1688 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1689 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1690 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1691 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1692 minor version number for this
1693 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1694 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1695 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1696 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1697 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1698 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1699 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1700 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1701 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1703 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1705 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1708 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1709 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1710 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1711 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1713 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1715 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1716 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1717 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1718 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1719 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1720 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1721 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1722 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1723 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1724 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1725 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1726 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1727 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1728 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1729 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1730 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1733 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1735 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1738 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1740 * Document the Enhances relationship
1741 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1742 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1743 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1744 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1745 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1746 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1748 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1750 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1751 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1752 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1753 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1755 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1756 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1757 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1758 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1759 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1761 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1763 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1766 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1767 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1769 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1770 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1771 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1772 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1773 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1774 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1775 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1776 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1777 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1779 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1781 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1783 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1786 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1787 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1788 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1789 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1790 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1791 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1792 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1793 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1794 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1795 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1796 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1797 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1798 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1799 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1800 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1801 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1802 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1803 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1804 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1805 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1806 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1808 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1809 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1813 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1816 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1817 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1818 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1819 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1820 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1821 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1822 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1823 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1824 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1825 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1826 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1827 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1828 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1829 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1830 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1831 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1832 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1833 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1834 list closes: Bug#53756
1835 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1836 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1837 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1838 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1839 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1840 policy closes: Bug#53760
1841 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1842 policy closes: Bug#53761
1843 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1844 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1845 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1846 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1847 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1848 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1849 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1850 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1851 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1852 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1853 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1855 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1856 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1857 to install with older fileutils.
1858 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1859 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1860 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1861 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1863 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1864 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1866 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1868 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1871 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1875 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1878 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1880 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1883 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1886 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1888 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1890 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1892 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1895 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1897 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1899 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1902 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1903 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1904 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1905 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1906 directoried (closes: #41547)
1907 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1908 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1909 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1910 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1911 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1912 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1913 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1914 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1915 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1916 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1917 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1919 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1920 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1921 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1922 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1923 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1924 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1925 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1927 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1928 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1929 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1930 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1932 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1934 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1936 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1937 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1939 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1941 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1944 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1946 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1948 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1951 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1953 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1954 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1955 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1956 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1957 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1958 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1959 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1960 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1961 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1962 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1963 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1964 this closes: Bug#38612
1965 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1966 before. closes: Bug#40864
1968 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1970 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1973 officially uploaded.
1974 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1976 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1977 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1978 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1980 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1981 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1982 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1983 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1984 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1985 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1987 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1988 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1989 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1991 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1993 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1994 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1995 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1996 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1997 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1999 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2001 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2004 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2005 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2006 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2007 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2008 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2009 there). closes: Bug#34233
2010 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2011 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2012 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2013 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2014 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2018 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2021 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2022 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2023 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2026 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2027 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2028 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2029 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2030 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2033 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2034 number. closes: BUG#25911
2036 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2037 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2038 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2039 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2040 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2041 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2043 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2044 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2045 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2048 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2049 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2050 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2052 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2053 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2054 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2055 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2057 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2058 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2059 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2061 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2063 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2064 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2065 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2066 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2067 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2068 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2069 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2070 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2073 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2075 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2076 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2079 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2081 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2085 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2087 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2090 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2091 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2092 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2093 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2094 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2095 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2096 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2098 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2099 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2101 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2103 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2105 * non-maintainer release
2106 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2107 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2109 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2110 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2111 * no content changes
2112 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2114 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2116 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2120 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2122 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2126 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2127 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2128 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2130 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2131 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2133 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2134 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2135 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2136 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2138 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2139 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2140 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2141 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2142 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2143 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2144 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2146 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2147 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2148 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2151 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2152 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2153 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2155 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2156 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2157 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2159 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2160 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2162 * New version numbering scheme:
2164 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2165 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2166 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2169 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2170 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2171 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2172 differ between the manuals.
2174 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2175 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2176 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2177 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2179 * Packaging changes:
2181 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2182 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2184 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2186 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2188 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2192 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2193 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2194 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2196 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2197 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2200 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2201 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2202 file extension as the referenced file
2204 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2205 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2207 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2208 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2209 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2210 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2213 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2214 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2215 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2217 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2218 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2219 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2220 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2223 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2224 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2227 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2228 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2229 reasonable default configuration
2231 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2232 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2233 by all news servers and clients
2235 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2236 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2237 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2238 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2239 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2241 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2242 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2245 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2247 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2248 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2250 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2253 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2254 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2256 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2257 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2259 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2261 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2263 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2266 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2267 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2268 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2270 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2272 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2273 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2274 * Don't use debstd anymore
2276 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2278 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2281 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2282 contrib/non-free policy
2283 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2284 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2285 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2286 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2287 - new section about `Daemons'
2288 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2289 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2290 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2291 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2292 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2293 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2294 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2295 * SGML source code included in package
2296 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2298 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2300 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2303 - completely reworked structure
2304 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2305 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2306 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2307 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2308 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2309 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2310 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2311 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2312 - mention "orphaned packages"
2313 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2314 distributions' policy
2315 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2316 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2317 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2318 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2319 - added section about arch spec strings
2320 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2321 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2322 - added section about "menus"
2323 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2324 the new documentation policy soon
2325 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2326 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2328 - added section about editors and pagers
2329 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2330 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2331 - added section about device files
2332 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2333 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2334 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2336 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2337 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2338 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2339 - Added new section about obsolete names
2340 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2341 * Fixed package's description
2343 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2345 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2349 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2351 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2354 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2355 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2356 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2358 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2360 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2363 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2364 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2366 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2367 and upload it "byhand" too.
2369 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2371 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2375 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2376 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2377 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2378 functionality must not have the same name.
2379 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2380 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2381 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2382 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2383 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2384 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2385 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2387 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2388 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2389 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2390 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2391 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2392 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2393 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2394 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2397 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2399 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2401 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2403 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2404 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2405 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2406 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2407 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2410 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2412 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2414 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2416 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2417 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2418 description of deb file format.
2419 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2420 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2422 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2424 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2425 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2427 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2429 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2431 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2432 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2433 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2434 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2435 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2436 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2437 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2438 packages in section on Procedure
2439 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2440 a package maintainer
2441 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2442 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2443 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2445 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2446 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2447 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2448 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2449 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2450 on various shlib files
2451 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2452 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2453 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2455 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2457 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2459 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2460 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2461 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2463 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2464 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2465 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2466 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2467 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2469 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2471 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2473 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2475 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2477 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2478 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2479 compatibility go in contrib.
2481 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2482 instructions in policy manual.
2483 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2486 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2488 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2490 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2491 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2492 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2493 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2495 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2496 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2499 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2501 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2503 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2504 * More detail about changelog format names.
2506 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2507 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2511 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2513 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2515 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2517 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2519 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2521 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2523 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2525 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2526 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2527 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2529 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2531 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2533 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2535 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2537 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2541 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100