1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
32 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
33 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
34 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
35 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
36 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
37 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
39 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
41 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
43 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
44 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
45 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
47 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
48 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
49 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
56 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
61 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
66 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
67 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
72 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
73 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
80 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
84 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
85 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
88 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
89 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
94 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
96 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
99 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
100 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
101 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
102 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
104 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
105 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
106 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
107 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
108 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
109 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
110 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
111 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
112 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
113 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
114 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
115 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
116 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
117 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
118 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
119 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
120 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
122 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
123 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
124 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
125 good to know which version one is looking at.
126 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
127 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
128 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
129 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
130 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
131 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
132 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
134 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
135 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
136 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
137 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
138 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
140 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
141 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
142 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
144 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
145 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
146 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
147 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
149 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
151 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
155 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
156 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
157 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
158 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
159 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
160 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
161 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
162 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
163 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
164 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
170 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
175 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
176 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
177 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
180 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
182 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
191 Closes: #620870, #532120
192 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
193 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
198 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
199 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
204 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
205 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
206 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
207 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
208 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
210 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
211 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
212 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
213 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
214 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
215 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
216 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
217 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
218 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
219 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
220 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
221 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
222 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
223 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
224 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
225 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
227 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
229 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
230 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
231 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
232 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
233 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
234 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
235 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
236 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
237 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
238 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
241 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
243 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
244 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
245 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
246 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
251 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
252 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
254 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
255 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
256 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
257 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
260 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
262 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
266 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
267 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
268 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
271 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
272 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
273 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
275 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
276 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
282 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
283 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
284 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
287 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
288 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
293 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
294 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
295 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
296 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
299 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
300 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
301 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
304 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
305 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
310 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
312 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
318 Closes: #459868, #581011
319 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
322 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
325 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
327 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
330 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
332 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
340 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
343 Closes: #501930, #593909
344 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
349 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
350 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
351 machine. (Closes: #591857)
352 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
353 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
354 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
355 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
356 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
357 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
358 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
359 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
360 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
361 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
363 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
364 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
365 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
366 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
367 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
368 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
369 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
370 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
371 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
372 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
373 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
374 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
375 than the version in oldstable.
376 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
377 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
378 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
379 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
380 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
381 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
382 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
383 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
384 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
385 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
386 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
387 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
388 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
389 package. (Closes: #609160)
391 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
393 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
396 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
397 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
401 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
402 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
407 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
411 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
416 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
417 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
421 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
422 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
431 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
432 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
434 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
436 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
437 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
439 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
441 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
453 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
458 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
459 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
468 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
483 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
485 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
486 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
487 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
488 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
489 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
490 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
491 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
492 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
493 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
495 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
496 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
497 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
498 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
499 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
500 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
502 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
504 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
510 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
513 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
514 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
515 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
516 and distribution license' (three times).
517 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
518 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
523 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
525 Proposed by Santiago Vila
526 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
533 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
534 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
538 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
539 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
540 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
543 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
554 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
556 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
557 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
560 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
566 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
568 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
569 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
570 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
573 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
579 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
584 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
589 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
595 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
596 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
597 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
600 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
601 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
606 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
607 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
611 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
612 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
613 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
614 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
615 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
616 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
617 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
618 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
619 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
620 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
621 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
622 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
623 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
624 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
625 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
626 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
627 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
628 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
629 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
630 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
631 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
632 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
633 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
634 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
635 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
636 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
637 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
638 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
639 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
640 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
641 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
642 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
644 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
646 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
648 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
652 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
654 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
655 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
659 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
662 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
663 Wording: Steve Langasek.
664 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
665 Seconded: Julien Cristau
666 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
669 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
670 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
671 Seconded: Russ Allbery
672 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
675 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
676 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
677 Seconded: Russ Allbery
679 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
680 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
681 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
682 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
683 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
684 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
685 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
686 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
689 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
690 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
691 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
692 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
693 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
694 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
695 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
697 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
698 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
699 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
700 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
701 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
702 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
703 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
706 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
707 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
708 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
709 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
710 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
712 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
715 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
716 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
719 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
720 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
723 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
725 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
728 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
732 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
733 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
737 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
738 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
742 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
743 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
746 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
747 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
749 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
750 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
755 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
756 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
760 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
761 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
765 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
766 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
770 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
771 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
775 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
776 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
780 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
781 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
782 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
783 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
784 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
785 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
786 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
787 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
788 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
789 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
790 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
791 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
792 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
793 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
794 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
796 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
797 Source field descriptions.
798 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
799 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
800 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
801 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
802 description says otherwise.
804 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
806 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
810 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
812 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
813 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
814 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
816 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
817 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
819 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
821 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
822 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
824 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
826 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
827 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
829 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
831 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
832 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
833 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
834 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
838 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
839 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
840 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
841 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
842 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
844 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
845 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
847 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
849 * Add myself to Uploaders.
852 * Add myself to Uploaders.
853 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
855 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
856 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
857 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
859 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
861 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
864 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
865 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
869 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
871 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
873 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
874 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
878 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
879 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
881 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
883 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
884 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
888 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
889 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
893 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
894 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
896 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
898 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
899 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
900 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
901 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
903 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
904 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
905 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
908 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
909 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
913 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
914 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
917 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
919 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
920 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
921 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
922 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
923 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
924 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
925 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
926 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
927 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
928 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
929 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
930 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
931 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
932 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
933 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
934 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
935 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
936 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
937 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
938 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
939 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
940 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
941 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
942 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
943 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
944 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
945 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
946 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
947 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
948 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
950 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
951 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
952 links was completed long ago.
953 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
955 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
957 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
960 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
962 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
964 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
967 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
968 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
969 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
970 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
971 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
972 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
973 Millan (Closes: #209008).
974 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
975 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
977 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
979 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
981 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
982 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
983 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
984 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
985 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
986 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
987 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
989 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
990 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
991 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
992 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
994 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
995 Küster (Closes: #403391).
996 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
997 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
998 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
999 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1000 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1001 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1002 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1005 Closes: #186700, #458910
1006 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1007 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1008 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1010 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1011 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1012 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1013 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1014 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1015 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1016 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1017 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1019 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1020 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1022 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1023 * Add an md5sums control file.
1024 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1025 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1026 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1027 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1028 currently part of policy.
1029 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1030 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1031 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1034 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1036 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1039 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1040 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1041 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1042 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1043 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1044 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1045 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1046 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1047 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1049 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1050 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1051 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1052 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1053 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1055 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1057 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1058 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1059 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1061 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1062 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1063 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1064 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1065 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1066 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1067 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1068 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1069 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1070 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1071 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1072 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1073 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1074 debconf specification.
1075 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1076 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1078 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1080 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1083 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1085 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1086 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1090 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1091 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1092 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1093 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1094 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1096 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1097 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1098 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1099 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1100 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1101 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1102 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1103 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1104 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1105 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1106 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1107 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1108 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1110 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1116 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1117 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1118 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1120 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1121 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1122 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1124 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1126 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1129 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1130 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1131 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1132 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1134 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1137 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1138 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1139 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1141 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1143 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1145 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1147 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1148 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1150 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1151 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1152 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1154 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1156 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1159 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1160 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1161 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1163 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1164 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1166 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1168 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1171 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1172 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1173 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1174 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1175 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1176 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1177 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1178 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1179 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1181 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1182 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1183 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1184 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1185 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1186 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1188 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1189 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1190 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1191 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1194 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1196 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1199 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1201 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1202 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1203 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1204 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1205 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1206 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1207 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1208 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1209 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1210 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1211 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1212 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1213 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1214 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1215 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1216 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1217 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1219 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1220 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1221 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1222 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1223 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1224 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1225 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1227 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1228 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1229 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1230 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1232 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1233 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1234 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1235 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1236 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1237 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1238 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1239 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1240 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1241 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1242 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1244 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1245 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1248 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1250 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1251 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1252 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1253 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1254 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1255 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1256 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1257 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1259 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1261 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1265 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1267 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1269 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1270 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1271 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1273 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1274 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1275 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1279 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1281 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1282 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1284 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1286 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1288 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1290 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1292 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1293 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1294 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1296 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1299 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1301 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1304 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1305 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1306 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1308 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1309 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1311 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1313 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1315 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1319 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1320 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1321 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1322 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1324 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1325 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1326 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1327 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1330 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1331 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1334 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1335 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1337 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1338 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1339 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1341 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1342 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1343 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1344 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1347 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1348 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1349 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1351 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1352 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1353 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1356 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1357 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1358 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1359 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1360 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1361 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1362 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1364 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1365 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1366 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1367 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1368 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1369 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1370 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1371 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1373 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1375 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1379 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1380 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1381 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1382 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1383 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1384 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1385 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1386 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1388 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1389 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1390 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1391 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1392 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1393 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1394 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1395 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1396 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1397 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1398 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1399 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1400 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1401 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1402 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1403 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1407 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1408 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1411 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1412 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1413 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1415 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1416 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1417 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1418 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1419 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1420 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1422 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1423 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1425 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1426 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1427 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1428 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1429 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1430 Closes: #185943, #237049
1432 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1434 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1440 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1441 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1442 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1443 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1444 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1445 running. closes: Bug#187250
1446 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1447 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1448 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1449 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1450 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1451 user closes: Bug#176506
1453 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1455 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1459 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1460 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1461 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1462 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1463 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1464 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1465 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1466 deb-building toolchain.
1467 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1468 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1469 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1470 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1471 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1472 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1473 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1474 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1475 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1476 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1477 sections about changelog files.
1479 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1480 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1481 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1482 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1483 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1484 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1486 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1487 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1488 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1489 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1490 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1491 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1492 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1493 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1494 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1495 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1496 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1497 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1498 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1499 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1500 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1501 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1502 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1503 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1504 for the restructuring
1506 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1508 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1513 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1514 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1515 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1516 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1517 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1518 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1520 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1521 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1522 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1523 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1524 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1525 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1526 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1528 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1529 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1530 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1531 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1533 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1535 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1539 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1540 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1541 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1542 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1543 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1545 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1546 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1547 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1548 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1550 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1551 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1552 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1553 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1554 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1555 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1556 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1557 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1558 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1559 offtopic stuff, too.
1560 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1561 script should start it, closes: #60979
1562 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1563 "should", closes: #170019
1564 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1565 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1566 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1567 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1568 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1569 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1570 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1571 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1574 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1576 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1580 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1581 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1582 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1583 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1584 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1585 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1586 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1587 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1589 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1590 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1591 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1592 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1593 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1594 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1595 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1596 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1597 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1599 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1600 file, closes: Bug#65764
1602 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1604 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1607 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1608 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1609 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1610 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1611 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1612 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1613 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1614 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1615 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1616 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1617 details. closes: Bug#133030
1618 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1619 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1620 parts of Bug#161455.
1622 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1624 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1627 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1628 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1629 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1630 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1631 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1632 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1633 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1634 not. closes: Bug#139820
1635 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1636 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1637 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1638 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1639 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1640 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1641 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1642 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1643 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1644 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1646 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1648 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1649 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1650 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1651 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1652 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1653 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1654 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1655 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1656 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1657 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1658 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1659 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1660 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1661 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1662 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1663 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1664 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1665 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1666 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1667 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1669 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1670 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1671 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1672 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1673 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1674 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1675 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1677 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1678 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1679 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1680 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1681 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1682 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1683 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1684 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1685 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1689 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1692 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1693 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1694 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1695 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1696 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1697 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1698 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1699 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1700 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1701 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1702 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1703 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1704 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1705 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1706 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1707 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1708 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1709 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1710 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1711 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1712 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1713 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1717 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1720 medium, high, emergency.
1721 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1722 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1723 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1724 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1725 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1728 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1729 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1730 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1732 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1733 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1734 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1735 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1736 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1737 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1738 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1743 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1746 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1747 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1748 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1750 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1751 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1752 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1753 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1754 debian/rules to do this
1755 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1756 patches are incorporated upstream
1757 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1758 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1759 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1760 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1761 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1762 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1764 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1765 system closes: Bug#91249
1766 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1767 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1768 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1769 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1770 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1771 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1772 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1773 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1774 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1775 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1776 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1777 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1778 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1780 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1782 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1785 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1786 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1787 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1789 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1790 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1791 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1793 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1796 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1798 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1801 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1802 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1803 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1804 package for the time being
1805 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1806 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1807 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1808 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1809 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1810 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1811 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1812 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1813 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1814 Build-Depends arch syntax
1815 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1817 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1818 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1820 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1821 from policy maintenance duties.
1822 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1823 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1825 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1827 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1831 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1833 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1836 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1837 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1838 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1839 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1840 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1841 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1842 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1843 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1844 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1845 minor version number for this
1846 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1847 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1848 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1849 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1850 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1851 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1852 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1853 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1854 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1856 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1858 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1861 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1862 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1863 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1864 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1866 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1868 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1869 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1870 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1871 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1872 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1873 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1874 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1875 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1876 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1877 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1878 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1879 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1880 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1881 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1882 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1883 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1886 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1888 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1891 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1893 * Document the Enhances relationship
1894 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1895 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1896 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1897 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1898 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1899 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1901 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1903 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1904 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1905 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1906 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1908 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1909 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1910 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1911 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1912 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1914 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1916 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1919 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1920 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1922 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1923 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1924 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1925 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1926 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1927 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1928 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1929 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1930 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1932 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1934 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1936 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1939 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1940 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1941 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1942 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1943 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1944 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1945 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1946 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1947 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1948 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1949 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1950 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1951 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1952 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1953 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1954 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1955 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1956 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1957 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1958 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1959 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1961 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1962 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1964 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1966 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1969 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1970 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1971 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1972 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1973 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1974 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1975 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1976 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1977 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1978 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1979 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1980 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1981 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1982 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1983 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1984 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1985 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1986 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1987 list closes: Bug#53756
1988 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1989 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1990 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1991 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1992 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1993 policy closes: Bug#53760
1994 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1995 policy closes: Bug#53761
1996 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1997 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1998 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1999 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2000 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2001 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2002 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2003 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2004 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2005 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2006 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2008 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2009 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2010 to install with older fileutils.
2011 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2012 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2013 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2014 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2016 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2017 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2019 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2021 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2024 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2026 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2028 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2031 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2033 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2036 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2039 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2041 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2043 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2045 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2048 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2050 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2052 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2055 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2056 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2057 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2058 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2059 directoried (closes: #41547)
2060 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2061 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2062 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2063 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2064 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2065 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2066 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2067 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2068 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2069 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2070 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2072 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2073 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2074 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2075 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2076 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2077 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2078 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2080 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2081 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2082 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2083 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2085 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2087 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2089 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2090 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2092 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2094 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2097 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2099 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2101 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2104 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2106 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2107 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2108 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2109 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2110 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2111 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2112 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2113 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2114 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2115 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2116 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2117 this closes: Bug#38612
2118 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2119 before. closes: Bug#40864
2121 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2123 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2126 officially uploaded.
2127 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2129 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2130 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2131 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2133 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2134 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2135 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2136 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2137 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2138 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2140 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2141 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2142 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2144 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2146 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2147 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2148 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2149 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2150 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2152 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2154 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2157 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2158 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2159 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2160 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2161 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2162 there). closes: Bug#34233
2163 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2164 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2165 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2166 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2167 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2169 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2171 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2174 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2175 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2176 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2179 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2180 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2181 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2182 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2183 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2186 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2187 number. closes: BUG#25911
2189 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2190 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2191 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2192 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2193 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2194 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2196 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2197 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2198 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2201 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2202 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2203 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2205 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2206 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2207 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2208 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2210 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2211 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2212 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2214 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2216 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2217 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2218 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2219 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2220 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2221 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2222 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2223 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2226 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2228 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2229 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2232 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2234 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2238 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2240 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2243 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2244 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2245 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2246 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2247 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2248 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2249 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2251 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2252 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2254 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2256 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2258 * non-maintainer release
2259 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2260 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2262 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2263 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2264 * no content changes
2265 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2267 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2269 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2273 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2275 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2279 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2280 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2281 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2283 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2284 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2286 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2287 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2288 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2289 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2291 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2292 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2293 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2294 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2295 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2296 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2297 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2299 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2300 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2301 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2304 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2305 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2306 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2308 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2309 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2310 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2312 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2313 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2315 * New version numbering scheme:
2317 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2318 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2319 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2322 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2323 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2324 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2325 differ between the manuals.
2327 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2328 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2329 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2330 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2332 * Packaging changes:
2334 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2335 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2337 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2339 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2341 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2345 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2346 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2347 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2349 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2350 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2353 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2354 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2355 file extension as the referenced file
2357 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2358 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2360 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2361 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2362 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2363 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2366 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2367 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2368 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2370 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2371 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2372 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2373 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2376 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2377 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2380 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2381 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2382 reasonable default configuration
2384 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2385 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2386 by all news servers and clients
2388 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2389 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2390 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2391 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2392 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2394 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2395 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2398 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2400 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2401 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2403 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2406 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2407 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2409 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2410 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2412 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2414 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2416 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2419 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2420 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2421 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2423 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2425 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2426 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2427 * Don't use debstd anymore
2429 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2431 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2434 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2435 contrib/non-free policy
2436 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2437 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2438 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2439 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2440 - new section about `Daemons'
2441 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2442 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2443 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2444 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2445 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2446 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2447 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2448 * SGML source code included in package
2449 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2451 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2453 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2456 - completely reworked structure
2457 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2458 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2459 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2460 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2461 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2462 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2463 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2464 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2465 - mention "orphaned packages"
2466 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2467 distributions' policy
2468 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2469 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2470 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2471 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2472 - added section about arch spec strings
2473 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2474 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2475 - added section about "menus"
2476 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2477 the new documentation policy soon
2478 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2479 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2481 - added section about editors and pagers
2482 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2483 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2484 - added section about device files
2485 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2486 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2487 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2489 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2490 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2491 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2492 - Added new section about obsolete names
2493 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2494 * Fixed package's description
2496 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2498 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2502 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2504 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2507 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2508 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2509 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2511 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2513 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2516 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2517 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2519 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2520 and upload it "byhand" too.
2522 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2524 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2528 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2529 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2530 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2531 functionality must not have the same name.
2532 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2533 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2534 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2535 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2536 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2537 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2538 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2540 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2541 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2542 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2543 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2544 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2545 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2546 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2547 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2550 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2552 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2554 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2556 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2557 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2558 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2559 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2560 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2563 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2565 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2567 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2569 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2570 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2571 description of deb file format.
2572 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2573 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2575 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2577 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2578 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2580 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2582 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2584 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2585 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2586 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2587 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2588 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2589 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2590 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2591 packages in section on Procedure
2592 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2593 a package maintainer
2594 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2595 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2596 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2598 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2599 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2600 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2601 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2602 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2603 on various shlib files
2604 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2605 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2606 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2608 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2610 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2612 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2613 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2614 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2616 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2617 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2618 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2619 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2620 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2622 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2624 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2626 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2628 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2630 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2631 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2632 compatibility go in contrib.
2634 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2635 instructions in policy manual.
2636 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2639 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2641 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2643 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2644 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2645 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2646 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2648 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2649 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2652 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2654 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2656 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2657 * More detail about changelog format names.
2659 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2660 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2664 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2666 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2668 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2670 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2672 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2674 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2676 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2678 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2679 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2680 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2682 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2684 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2686 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2688 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2690 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2694 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100