1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:00:10 +0100
7 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
10 for the help. Closes: #769219
12 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
14 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
17 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
18 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
20 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
21 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
22 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
23 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
24 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
25 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
26 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
27 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
28 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
30 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
32 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
33 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
39 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
40 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
44 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
45 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
49 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
50 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
54 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
56 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
61 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
62 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
64 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
71 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
74 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
76 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
77 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
81 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
82 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
83 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
86 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
87 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
89 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
93 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
94 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
95 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
97 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
102 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
105 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
109 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
110 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
116 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
121 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
123 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
128 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
129 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
133 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
137 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
138 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
140 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
142 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
143 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
144 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
149 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
153 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
154 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
156 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
159 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
160 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
163 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
164 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
165 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
169 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
170 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
171 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
173 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
174 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
175 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
176 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
177 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
178 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
179 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
180 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
181 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
182 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
183 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
184 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
186 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
187 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
188 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
189 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
191 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
193 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
195 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
196 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
197 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
199 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
200 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
201 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
208 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
213 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
218 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
219 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
225 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
230 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
232 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
236 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
237 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
240 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
241 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
246 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
248 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
251 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
252 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
253 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
254 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
256 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
257 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
258 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
259 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
260 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
261 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
262 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
263 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
264 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
265 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
266 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
267 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
268 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
269 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
270 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
271 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
272 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
274 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
275 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
276 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
277 good to know which version one is looking at.
278 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
279 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
280 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
281 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
282 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
283 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
284 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
286 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
287 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
288 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
289 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
290 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
292 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
293 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
294 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
296 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
297 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
298 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
299 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
301 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
303 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
307 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
308 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
309 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
310 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
311 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
312 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
313 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
314 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
315 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
316 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
322 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
327 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
328 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
329 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
332 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
334 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
343 Closes: #620870, #532120
344 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
345 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
350 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
351 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
352 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
356 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
357 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
358 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
359 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
360 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
362 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
363 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
364 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
365 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
366 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
367 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
368 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
369 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
370 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
371 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
372 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
373 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
374 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
375 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
376 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
377 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
379 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
381 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
382 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
383 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
384 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
385 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
386 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
387 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
388 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
389 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
390 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
393 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
395 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
396 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
397 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
403 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
404 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
406 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
407 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
408 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
409 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
414 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
418 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
419 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
420 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
423 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
424 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
425 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
427 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
428 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
434 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
435 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
436 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
439 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
440 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
445 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
446 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
447 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
448 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
451 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
452 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
453 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
456 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
457 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
464 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
470 Closes: #459868, #581011
471 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
472 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
474 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
476 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
477 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
482 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
484 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
486 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
487 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
491 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
492 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
495 Closes: #501930, #593909
496 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
501 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
502 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
503 machine. (Closes: #591857)
504 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
505 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
506 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
507 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
508 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
509 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
510 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
511 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
512 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
513 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
515 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
516 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
517 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
518 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
519 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
520 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
521 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
522 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
523 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
524 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
525 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
526 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
527 than the version in oldstable.
528 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
529 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
530 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
531 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
532 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
533 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
534 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
535 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
536 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
537 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
538 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
539 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
540 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
541 package. (Closes: #609160)
543 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
545 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
548 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
553 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
554 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
556 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
558 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
559 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
563 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
564 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
568 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
569 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
573 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
578 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
583 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
584 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
586 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
588 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
589 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
591 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
593 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
594 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
599 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
605 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
610 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
611 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
615 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
616 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
620 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
625 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
626 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
630 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
631 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
635 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
637 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
638 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
639 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
640 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
641 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
642 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
643 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
644 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
645 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
647 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
648 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
649 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
650 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
651 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
652 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
654 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
656 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
662 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
665 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
666 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
667 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
668 and distribution license' (three times).
669 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
670 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
675 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
677 Proposed by Santiago Vila
678 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
685 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
686 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
690 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
691 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
692 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
695 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
697 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
702 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
703 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
706 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
709 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
712 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
714 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
718 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
722 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
725 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
726 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
731 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
732 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
736 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
737 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
741 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
742 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
747 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
748 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
749 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
752 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
753 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
758 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
759 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
763 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
764 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
765 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
766 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
767 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
768 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
769 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
770 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
771 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
772 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
773 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
774 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
775 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
776 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
777 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
778 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
779 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
780 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
781 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
782 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
783 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
784 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
785 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
786 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
787 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
788 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
789 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
790 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
791 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
792 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
793 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
794 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
796 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
798 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
800 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
804 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
806 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
807 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
811 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
814 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
815 Wording: Steve Langasek.
816 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
817 Seconded: Julien Cristau
818 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
821 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
822 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
823 Seconded: Russ Allbery
824 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
827 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
828 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
829 Seconded: Russ Allbery
831 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
832 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
833 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
834 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
835 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
836 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
837 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
838 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
841 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
842 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
843 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
844 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
845 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
846 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
847 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
848 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
849 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
850 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
851 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
852 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
853 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
854 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
855 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
858 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
859 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
860 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
861 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
862 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
864 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
867 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
868 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
871 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
872 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
875 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
877 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
880 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
884 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
885 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
889 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
890 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
894 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
895 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
898 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
899 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
901 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
902 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
904 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
905 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
907 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
908 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
912 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
913 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
917 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
918 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
922 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
923 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
925 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
927 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
928 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
929 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
932 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
933 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
934 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
935 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
936 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
937 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
938 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
939 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
940 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
941 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
942 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
943 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
944 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
945 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
946 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
948 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
949 Source field descriptions.
950 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
951 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
952 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
953 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
954 description says otherwise.
956 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
958 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
962 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
965 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
966 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
968 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
969 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
970 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
971 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
973 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
974 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
976 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
978 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
979 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
983 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
984 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
985 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
986 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
990 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
991 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
992 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
993 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
994 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
996 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
997 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
998 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1001 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1004 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1005 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1007 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1008 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1009 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1011 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1013 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1016 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1017 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1018 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1020 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1021 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1022 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1023 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1025 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1026 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1027 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1028 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1030 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1031 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1032 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1033 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1035 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1036 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1037 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1038 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1040 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1041 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1042 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1043 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1045 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1046 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1047 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1048 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1050 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1051 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1052 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1053 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1055 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1056 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1057 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1058 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1060 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1061 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1062 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1063 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1065 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1066 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1067 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1069 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1071 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1072 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1073 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1074 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1075 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1076 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1077 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1078 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1079 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1080 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1081 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1082 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1083 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1084 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1085 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1086 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1087 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1088 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1089 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1090 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1091 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1092 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1093 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1094 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1095 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1096 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1097 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1098 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1099 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1100 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1102 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1103 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1104 links was completed long ago.
1105 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1107 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1109 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1112 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1114 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1116 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1119 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1120 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1121 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1122 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1123 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1124 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1125 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1126 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1127 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1129 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1131 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1133 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1134 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1135 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1136 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1137 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1138 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1139 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1141 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1142 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1143 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1144 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1146 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1147 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1148 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1149 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1150 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1151 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1152 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1153 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1154 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1155 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1156 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1157 Closes: #186700, #458910
1158 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1159 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1160 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1162 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1163 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1164 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1165 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1166 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1167 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1168 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1171 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1172 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1174 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1175 * Add an md5sums control file.
1176 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1177 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1178 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1179 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1180 currently part of policy.
1181 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1182 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1183 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1186 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1188 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1191 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1192 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1193 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1194 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1195 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1196 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1197 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1198 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1199 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1201 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1202 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1203 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1204 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1205 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1207 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1209 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1210 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1211 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1213 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1214 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1215 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1216 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1217 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1218 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1219 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1220 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1221 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1222 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1223 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1224 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1225 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1226 debconf specification.
1227 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1228 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1230 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1232 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1235 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1237 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1238 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1242 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1243 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1244 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1245 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1246 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1248 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1249 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1250 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1251 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1252 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1253 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1254 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1255 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1256 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1257 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1258 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1259 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1260 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1262 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1268 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1269 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1270 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1272 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1273 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1274 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1276 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1278 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1281 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1282 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1284 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1286 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1289 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1290 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1291 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1293 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1295 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1297 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1299 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1300 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1301 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1302 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1303 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1304 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1306 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1308 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1311 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1312 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1313 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1316 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1318 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1320 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1323 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1324 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1325 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1326 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1327 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1328 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1329 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1330 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1331 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1333 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1334 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1336 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1337 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1338 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1340 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1342 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1343 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1346 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1348 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1351 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1353 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1354 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1355 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1356 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1357 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1358 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1359 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1360 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1361 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1362 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1363 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1364 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1365 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1366 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1367 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1368 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1369 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1371 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1372 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1373 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1374 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1375 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1376 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1377 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1379 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1380 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1381 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1382 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1384 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1385 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1386 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1387 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1388 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1389 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1390 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1391 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1392 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1393 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1394 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1397 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1400 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1402 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1403 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1404 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1405 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1406 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1407 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1408 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1409 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1411 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1413 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1417 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1419 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1421 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1422 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1423 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1425 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1426 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1427 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1428 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1431 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1433 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1434 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1436 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1438 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1439 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1440 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1442 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1444 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1445 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1446 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1448 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1451 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1453 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1456 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1457 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1458 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1460 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1461 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1463 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1467 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1471 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1472 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1473 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1474 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1475 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1476 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1477 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1478 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1479 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1481 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1482 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1483 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1486 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1487 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1488 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1489 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1490 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1491 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1493 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1494 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1495 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1496 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1499 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1500 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1501 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1502 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1503 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1504 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1505 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1507 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1508 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1509 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1510 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1511 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1512 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1513 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1514 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1515 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1516 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1517 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1518 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1519 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1520 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1521 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1522 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1523 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1525 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1527 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1531 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1532 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1533 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1534 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1535 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1536 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1537 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1538 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1540 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1541 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1542 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1543 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1544 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1545 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1546 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1547 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1548 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1549 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1550 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1551 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1552 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1553 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1554 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1555 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1556 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1558 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1559 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1560 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1563 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1564 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1565 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1567 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1568 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1569 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1570 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1571 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1572 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1574 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1575 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1577 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1578 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1579 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1580 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1581 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1582 Closes: #185943, #237049
1584 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1586 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1592 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1593 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1594 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1595 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1596 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1597 running. closes: Bug#187250
1598 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1599 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1600 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1601 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1602 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1603 user closes: Bug#176506
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1607 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1611 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1612 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1613 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1614 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1615 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1616 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1617 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1618 deb-building toolchain.
1619 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1620 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1621 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1622 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1623 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1624 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1625 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1626 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1627 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1628 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1629 sections about changelog files.
1631 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1632 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1633 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1634 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1635 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1636 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1638 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1639 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1640 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1641 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1642 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1643 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1644 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1645 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1646 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1647 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1648 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1649 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1650 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1651 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1652 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1653 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1654 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1655 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1656 for the restructuring
1658 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1660 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1665 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1666 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1667 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1668 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1669 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1670 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1672 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1673 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1674 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1675 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1676 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1677 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1678 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1680 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1681 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1682 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1683 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1685 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1687 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1691 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1692 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1693 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1694 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1695 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1697 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1698 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1699 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1700 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1702 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1703 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1704 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1705 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1706 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1707 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1708 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1709 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1710 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1711 offtopic stuff, too.
1712 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1713 script should start it, closes: #60979
1714 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1715 "should", closes: #170019
1716 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1717 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1718 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1719 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1720 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1721 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1722 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1723 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1726 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1728 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1732 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1733 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1734 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1735 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1736 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1737 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1738 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1739 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1741 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1742 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1743 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1744 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1745 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1746 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1747 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1748 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1749 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1751 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1752 file, closes: Bug#65764
1754 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1756 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1759 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1760 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1761 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1762 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1763 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1764 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1765 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1766 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1767 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1768 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1769 details. closes: Bug#133030
1770 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1771 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1772 parts of Bug#161455.
1774 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1776 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1779 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1780 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1781 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1782 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1783 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1784 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1785 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1786 not. closes: Bug#139820
1787 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1788 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1789 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1790 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1791 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1792 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1793 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1794 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1795 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1796 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1798 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1800 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1801 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1802 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1803 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1804 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1805 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1806 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1807 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1808 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1809 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1810 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1811 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1812 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1813 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1814 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1815 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1816 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1817 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1818 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1819 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1821 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1822 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1823 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1824 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1825 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1826 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1827 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1829 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1830 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1831 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1832 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1833 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1834 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1835 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1836 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1837 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1839 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1841 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1844 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1845 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1846 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1847 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1848 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1849 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1850 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1851 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1852 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1853 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1854 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1855 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1856 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1857 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1858 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1859 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1860 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1861 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1862 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1863 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1864 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1865 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1867 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1869 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1872 medium, high, emergency.
1873 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1874 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1875 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1876 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1877 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1880 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1881 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1882 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1884 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1885 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1886 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1887 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1888 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1889 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1890 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1893 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1895 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1898 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1899 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1900 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1902 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1903 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1904 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1905 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1906 debian/rules to do this
1907 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1908 patches are incorporated upstream
1909 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1910 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1911 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1912 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1913 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1914 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1916 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1917 system closes: Bug#91249
1918 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1919 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1920 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1921 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1922 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1923 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1924 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1925 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1926 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1927 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1928 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1929 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1930 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1932 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1934 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1937 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1938 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1939 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1941 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1942 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1943 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1945 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1948 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1950 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1953 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1954 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1955 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1956 package for the time being
1957 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1958 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1959 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1960 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1961 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1962 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1963 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1964 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1965 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1966 Build-Depends arch syntax
1967 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1969 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1970 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1972 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1973 from policy maintenance duties.
1974 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1975 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1977 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1979 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1983 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1985 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1988 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1989 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1990 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1991 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1992 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1993 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1994 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1995 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1996 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1997 minor version number for this
1998 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1999 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2000 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2001 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2002 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2003 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2004 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2005 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2006 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2008 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2010 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2013 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2014 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2015 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2016 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2018 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2020 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2021 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2022 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2023 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2024 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2025 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2026 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2027 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2028 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2029 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2030 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2031 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2032 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2033 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2034 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2035 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2038 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2040 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2043 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2045 * Document the Enhances relationship
2046 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2047 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2048 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2049 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2050 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2051 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2053 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2055 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2056 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2057 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2058 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2060 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2061 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2062 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2063 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2064 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2066 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2068 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2071 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2072 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2074 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2075 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2076 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2077 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2078 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2079 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2080 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2081 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2082 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2084 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2086 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2088 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2091 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2092 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2093 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2094 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2095 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2096 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2097 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2098 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2099 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2100 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2101 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2102 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2103 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2104 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2105 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2106 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2107 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2108 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2109 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2110 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2111 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2113 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2114 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2118 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2121 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2122 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2123 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2124 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2125 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2126 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2127 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2128 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2129 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2130 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2131 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2132 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2133 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2134 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2135 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2136 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2137 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2138 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2139 list closes: Bug#53756
2140 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2141 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2142 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2143 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2144 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2145 policy closes: Bug#53760
2146 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2147 policy closes: Bug#53761
2148 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2149 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2150 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2151 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2152 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2153 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2154 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2155 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2156 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2157 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2158 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2160 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2161 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2162 to install with older fileutils.
2163 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2164 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2165 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2166 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2168 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2169 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2173 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2176 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2180 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2183 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2185 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2188 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2191 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2193 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2195 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2197 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2200 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2202 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2204 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2207 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2208 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2209 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2210 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2211 directoried (closes: #41547)
2212 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2213 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2214 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2215 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2216 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2217 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2218 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2219 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2220 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2221 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2222 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2224 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2225 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2226 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2227 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2228 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2229 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2230 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2232 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2233 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2234 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2235 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2237 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2239 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2241 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2242 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2244 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2246 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2249 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2251 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2253 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2256 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2258 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2259 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2260 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2261 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2262 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2263 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2264 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2265 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2266 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2267 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2268 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2269 this closes: Bug#38612
2270 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2271 before. closes: Bug#40864
2273 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2275 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2278 officially uploaded.
2279 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2281 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2282 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2283 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2285 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2286 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2287 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2288 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2289 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2290 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2292 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2293 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2294 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2296 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2298 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2299 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2300 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2301 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2302 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2304 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2306 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2309 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2310 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2311 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2312 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2313 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2314 there). closes: Bug#34233
2315 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2316 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2317 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2318 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2319 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2321 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2323 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2326 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2327 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2328 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2331 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2332 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2333 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2334 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2335 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2338 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2339 number. closes: BUG#25911
2341 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2342 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2343 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2344 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2345 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2346 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2348 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2349 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2350 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2353 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2354 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2355 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2357 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2358 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2359 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2360 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2362 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2363 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2364 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2366 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2368 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2369 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2370 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2371 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2372 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2373 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2374 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2375 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2378 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2380 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2381 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2384 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2386 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2390 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2392 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2395 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2396 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2397 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2398 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2399 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2400 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2401 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2403 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2404 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2406 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2408 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2410 * non-maintainer release
2411 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2412 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2414 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2415 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2416 * no content changes
2417 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2419 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2421 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2425 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2427 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2431 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2432 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2433 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2435 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2436 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2438 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2439 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2440 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2441 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2443 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2444 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2445 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2446 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2447 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2448 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2449 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2451 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2452 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2453 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2456 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2457 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2458 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2460 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2461 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2462 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2464 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2465 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2467 * New version numbering scheme:
2469 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2470 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2471 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2474 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2475 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2476 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2477 differ between the manuals.
2479 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2480 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2481 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2482 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2484 * Packaging changes:
2486 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2487 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2489 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2491 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2493 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2497 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2498 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2499 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2501 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2502 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2505 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2506 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2507 file extension as the referenced file
2509 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2510 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2512 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2513 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2514 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2515 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2518 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2519 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2520 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2522 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2523 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2524 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2525 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2528 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2529 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2532 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2533 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2534 reasonable default configuration
2536 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2537 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2538 by all news servers and clients
2540 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2541 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2542 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2543 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2544 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2546 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2547 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2550 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2552 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2553 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2555 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2558 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2559 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2561 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2562 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2564 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2566 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2568 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2571 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2572 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2573 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2575 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2577 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2578 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2579 * Don't use debstd anymore
2581 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2583 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2586 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2587 contrib/non-free policy
2588 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2589 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2590 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2591 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2592 - new section about `Daemons'
2593 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2594 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2595 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2596 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2597 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2598 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2599 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2600 * SGML source code included in package
2601 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2603 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2605 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2608 - completely reworked structure
2609 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2610 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2611 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2612 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2613 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2614 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2615 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2616 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2617 - mention "orphaned packages"
2618 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2619 distributions' policy
2620 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2621 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2622 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2623 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2624 - added section about arch spec strings
2625 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2626 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2627 - added section about "menus"
2628 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2629 the new documentation policy soon
2630 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2631 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2633 - added section about editors and pagers
2634 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2635 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2636 - added section about device files
2637 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2638 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2639 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2641 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2642 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2643 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2644 - Added new section about obsolete names
2645 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2646 * Fixed package's description
2648 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2650 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2654 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2656 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2659 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2660 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2661 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2663 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2665 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2668 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2669 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2671 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2672 and upload it "byhand" too.
2674 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2676 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2680 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2681 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2682 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2683 functionality must not have the same name.
2684 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2685 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2686 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2687 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2688 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2689 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2690 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2692 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2693 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2694 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2695 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2696 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2697 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2698 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2699 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2702 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2704 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2706 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2708 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2709 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2710 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2711 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2712 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2715 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2717 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2719 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2721 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2722 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2723 description of deb file format.
2724 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2725 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2727 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2729 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2730 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2732 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2734 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2736 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2737 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2738 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2739 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2740 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2741 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2742 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2743 packages in section on Procedure
2744 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2745 a package maintainer
2746 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2747 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2748 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2750 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2751 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2752 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2753 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2754 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2755 on various shlib files
2756 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2757 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2758 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2760 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2762 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2764 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2765 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2766 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2768 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2769 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2770 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2771 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2772 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2774 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2776 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2778 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2780 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2782 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2783 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2784 compatibility go in contrib.
2786 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2787 instructions in policy manual.
2788 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2791 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2793 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2795 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2796 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2797 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2798 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2800 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2801 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2804 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2806 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2808 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2809 * More detail about changelog format names.
2811 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2812 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2816 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2818 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2820 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2824 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2826 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2828 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2830 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2831 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2832 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2834 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2836 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2838 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2840 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2842 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2846 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100