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 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
32 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
37 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
39 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
41 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
42 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
43 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
47 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
48 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
49 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
51 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
52 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
53 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
54 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
55 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
56 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
57 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
58 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
59 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
60 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
61 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
62 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
64 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
66 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
68 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
70 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
71 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
72 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
74 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
75 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
76 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
83 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
88 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
93 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
94 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
99 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
100 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
105 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
107 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
110 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
111 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
112 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
115 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
116 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
123 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
126 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
127 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
128 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
129 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
131 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
132 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
133 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
134 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
135 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
136 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
137 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
138 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
139 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
140 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
141 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
142 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
143 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
144 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
145 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
146 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
147 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
149 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
150 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
151 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
152 good to know which version one is looking at.
153 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
154 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
155 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
156 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
157 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
158 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
159 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
161 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
162 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
163 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
164 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
165 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
167 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
168 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
169 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
171 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
172 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
173 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
174 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
176 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
178 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
182 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
183 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
184 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
185 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
186 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
187 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
188 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
189 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
190 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
191 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
196 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
197 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
202 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
203 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
204 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
207 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
209 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
214 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
218 Closes: #620870, #532120
219 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
220 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
225 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
226 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
227 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
231 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
232 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
233 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
234 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
235 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
237 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
238 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
239 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
240 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
241 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
242 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
243 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
244 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
245 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
246 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
247 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
248 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
249 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
250 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
251 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
252 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
254 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
256 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
257 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
258 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
259 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
260 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
261 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
262 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
263 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
264 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
265 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
268 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
270 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
271 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
272 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
273 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
278 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
279 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
281 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
282 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
283 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
284 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
287 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
289 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
293 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
294 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
295 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
298 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
299 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
300 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
302 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
303 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
309 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
310 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
311 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
314 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
315 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
320 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
321 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
322 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
323 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
326 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
327 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
328 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
331 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
332 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
337 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
339 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
345 Closes: #459868, #581011
346 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
349 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
352 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
357 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
359 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
361 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
362 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
366 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
367 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
370 Closes: #501930, #593909
371 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
372 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
376 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
377 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
378 machine. (Closes: #591857)
379 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
380 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
381 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
382 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
383 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
384 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
385 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
386 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
387 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
388 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
390 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
391 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
392 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
393 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
394 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
395 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
396 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
397 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
398 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
399 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
400 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
401 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
402 than the version in oldstable.
403 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
404 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
405 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
406 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
407 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
408 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
409 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
410 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
411 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
412 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
413 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
414 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
415 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
416 package. (Closes: #609160)
418 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
420 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
428 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
439 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
443 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
448 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
449 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
453 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
458 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
459 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
461 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
466 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
468 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
474 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
475 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
480 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
485 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
486 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
495 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
500 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
501 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
505 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
510 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
512 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
513 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
514 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
515 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
516 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
517 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
518 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
519 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
520 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
522 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
523 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
524 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
525 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
526 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
527 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
529 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
531 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
537 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
540 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
541 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
542 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
543 and distribution license' (three times).
544 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
545 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
550 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
552 Proposed by Santiago Vila
553 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
556 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
566 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
567 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
570 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
572 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
577 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
578 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
581 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
583 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
584 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
587 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
593 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
597 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
600 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
611 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
616 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
617 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
618 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
622 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
623 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
627 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
628 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
633 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
634 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
638 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
639 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
640 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
641 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
642 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
643 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
644 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
645 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
646 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
647 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
648 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
649 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
650 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
651 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
652 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
653 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
654 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
655 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
656 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
657 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
658 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
659 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
660 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
661 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
662 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
663 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
664 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
665 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
666 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
667 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
668 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
669 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
671 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
673 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
675 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
679 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
681 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
682 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
686 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
689 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
690 Wording: Steve Langasek.
691 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
692 Seconded: Julien Cristau
693 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
696 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
697 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
698 Seconded: Russ Allbery
699 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
702 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
703 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
704 Seconded: Russ Allbery
706 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
707 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
708 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
709 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
710 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
711 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
712 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
713 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
716 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
717 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
718 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
719 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
720 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
721 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
722 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
724 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
725 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
726 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
727 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
728 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
729 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
730 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
733 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
734 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
735 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
736 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
737 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
739 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
742 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
743 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
746 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
747 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
750 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
752 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
759 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
760 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
764 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
765 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
769 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
770 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
771 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
773 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
774 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
776 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
777 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
782 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
783 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
785 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
787 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
788 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
792 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
793 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
797 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
798 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
802 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
803 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
807 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
808 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
809 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
810 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
811 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
812 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
813 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
814 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
815 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
816 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
817 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
818 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
819 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
820 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
821 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
823 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
824 Source field descriptions.
825 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
826 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
827 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
828 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
829 description says otherwise.
831 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
833 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
837 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
840 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
841 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
843 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
844 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
848 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
849 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
853 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
854 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
855 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
858 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
859 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
860 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
861 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
865 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
866 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
867 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
868 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
869 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
871 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
872 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 * Add myself to Uploaders.
879 * Add myself to Uploaders.
880 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
882 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
883 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
884 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
886 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
888 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
891 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
896 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
898 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
900 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
901 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
905 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
906 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
908 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
910 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
911 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
915 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
916 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
918 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
920 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
921 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
923 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
925 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
926 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
928 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
930 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
931 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
932 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
935 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
936 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
937 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
938 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
940 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
941 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
944 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
946 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
947 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
948 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
949 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
950 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
951 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
952 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
953 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
954 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
955 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
956 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
957 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
958 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
959 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
960 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
961 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
962 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
963 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
964 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
965 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
966 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
967 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
968 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
969 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
970 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
971 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
972 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
973 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
974 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
975 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
977 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
978 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
979 links was completed long ago.
980 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
982 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
984 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
987 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
989 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
991 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
994 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
995 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
996 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
997 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
998 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
999 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1000 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1001 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1002 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1004 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1006 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1008 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1009 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1010 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1011 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1012 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1013 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1014 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1016 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1017 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1018 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1019 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1021 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1022 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1023 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1024 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1025 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1026 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1027 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1028 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1029 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1031 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1032 Closes: #186700, #458910
1033 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1034 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1037 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1038 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1039 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1040 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1041 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1042 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1043 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1044 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1046 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1047 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1049 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1050 * Add an md5sums control file.
1051 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1052 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1053 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1054 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1055 currently part of policy.
1056 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1057 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1058 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1061 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1063 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1066 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1067 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1068 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1069 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1070 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1071 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1072 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1073 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1074 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1076 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1077 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1078 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1079 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1080 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1082 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1084 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1085 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1086 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1088 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1089 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1090 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1091 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1092 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1093 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1094 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1095 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1096 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1097 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1098 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1099 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1100 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1101 debconf specification.
1102 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1103 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1105 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1107 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1110 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1112 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1113 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1118 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1119 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1120 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1121 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1123 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1124 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1125 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1126 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1127 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1128 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1129 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1130 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1131 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1132 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1133 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1134 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1135 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1137 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1143 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1144 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1145 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1147 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1148 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1149 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1153 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1156 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1157 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1159 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1161 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1163 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1164 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1165 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1166 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1168 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1170 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1172 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1174 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1175 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1176 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1177 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1178 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1179 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1183 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1186 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1187 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1188 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1191 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1193 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1195 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1198 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1199 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1200 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1201 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1202 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1203 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1204 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1205 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1206 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1208 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1209 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1210 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1211 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1212 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1213 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1215 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1217 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1218 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1221 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1223 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1226 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1228 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1229 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1230 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1231 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1232 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1233 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1234 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1235 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1236 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1237 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1238 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1239 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1240 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1241 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1242 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1243 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1244 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1246 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1247 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1248 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1249 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1250 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1251 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1252 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1254 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1255 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1256 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1257 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1259 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1260 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1261 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1262 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1263 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1264 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1265 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1266 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1267 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1268 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1269 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1272 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1275 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1277 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1278 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1279 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1280 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1281 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1282 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1283 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1284 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1286 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1288 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1292 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1294 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1296 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1297 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1298 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1300 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1301 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1302 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1306 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1308 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1309 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1311 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1312 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1313 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1315 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1316 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1317 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1319 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1320 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1321 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1323 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1326 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1328 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1331 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1332 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1333 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1335 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1336 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1338 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1340 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1342 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1346 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1347 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1348 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1349 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1351 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1352 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1353 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1354 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1357 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1358 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1361 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1362 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1364 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1365 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1366 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1368 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1369 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1370 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1371 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1374 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1375 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1376 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1377 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1378 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1379 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1380 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1382 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1383 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1384 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1385 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1386 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1387 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1388 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1389 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1390 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1391 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1392 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1393 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1394 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1395 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1396 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1397 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1398 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1400 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1402 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1406 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1407 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1408 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1409 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1410 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1411 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1412 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1413 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1415 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1416 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1417 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1418 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1419 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1420 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1421 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1422 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1423 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1424 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1425 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1426 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1427 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1428 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1429 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1430 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1431 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1434 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1435 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1438 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1439 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1440 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1442 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1443 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1444 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1445 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1446 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1447 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1449 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1450 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1452 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1453 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1454 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1455 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1456 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1457 Closes: #185943, #237049
1459 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1461 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1467 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1468 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1469 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1470 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1471 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1472 running. closes: Bug#187250
1473 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1474 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1475 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1476 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1477 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1478 user closes: Bug#176506
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1482 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1486 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1487 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1488 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1489 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1490 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1491 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1492 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1493 deb-building toolchain.
1494 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1495 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1496 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1497 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1498 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1499 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1500 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1501 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1502 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1503 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1504 sections about changelog files.
1506 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1507 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1508 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1509 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1510 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1511 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1513 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1514 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1515 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1516 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1517 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1518 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1519 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1520 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1521 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1522 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1523 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1524 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1525 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1526 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1527 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1528 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1529 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1530 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1531 for the restructuring
1533 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1535 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1540 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1541 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1542 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1543 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1544 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1545 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1547 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1548 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1549 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1550 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1551 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1552 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1553 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1555 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1556 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1557 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1558 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1560 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1562 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1566 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1567 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1568 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1569 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1570 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1572 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1573 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1574 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1575 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1577 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1578 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1579 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1580 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1581 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1582 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1583 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1584 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1585 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1586 offtopic stuff, too.
1587 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1588 script should start it, closes: #60979
1589 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1590 "should", closes: #170019
1591 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1592 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1593 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1594 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1595 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1596 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1597 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1598 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1601 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1603 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1607 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1608 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1609 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1610 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1611 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1612 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1613 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1614 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1616 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1617 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1618 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1619 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1620 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1621 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1622 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1623 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1624 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1626 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1627 file, closes: Bug#65764
1629 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1631 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1634 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1635 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1636 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1637 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1638 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1639 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1640 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1641 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1642 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1643 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1644 details. closes: Bug#133030
1645 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1646 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1647 parts of Bug#161455.
1649 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1651 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1654 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1655 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1656 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1657 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1658 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1659 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1660 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1661 not. closes: Bug#139820
1662 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1663 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1664 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1665 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1666 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1667 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1668 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1669 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1670 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1671 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1673 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1675 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1676 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1677 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1678 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1679 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1680 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1681 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1682 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1683 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1684 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1685 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1686 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1687 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1688 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1689 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1690 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1691 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1692 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1693 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1694 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1696 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1697 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1698 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1699 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1700 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1701 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1702 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1704 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1705 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1706 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1707 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1708 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1709 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1710 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1711 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1712 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1714 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1716 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1719 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1720 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1721 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1722 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1723 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1724 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1725 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1726 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1727 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1728 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1729 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1730 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1731 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1732 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1733 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1734 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1735 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1736 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1737 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1738 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1739 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1740 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1742 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1744 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1747 medium, high, emergency.
1748 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1749 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1750 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1751 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1752 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1755 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1756 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1757 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1759 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1760 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1761 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1762 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1763 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1764 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1765 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1768 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1770 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1773 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1774 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1775 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1777 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1778 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1779 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1780 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1781 debian/rules to do this
1782 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1783 patches are incorporated upstream
1784 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1785 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1786 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1787 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1788 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1789 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1791 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1792 system closes: Bug#91249
1793 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1794 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1795 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1796 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1797 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1798 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1799 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1800 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1801 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1802 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1803 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1804 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1805 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1807 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1809 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1812 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1813 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1814 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1816 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1817 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1818 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1820 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1823 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1825 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1828 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1829 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1830 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1831 package for the time being
1832 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1833 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1834 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1835 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1836 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1837 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1838 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1839 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1840 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1841 Build-Depends arch syntax
1842 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1844 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1845 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1847 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1848 from policy maintenance duties.
1849 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1850 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1852 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1854 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1858 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1860 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1863 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1864 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1865 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1866 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1867 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1868 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1869 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1870 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1871 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1872 minor version number for this
1873 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1874 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1875 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1876 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1877 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1878 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1879 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1880 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1881 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1883 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1885 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1888 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1889 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1890 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1891 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1893 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1895 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1896 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1897 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1898 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1899 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1900 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1901 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1902 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1903 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1904 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1905 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1906 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1907 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1908 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1909 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1910 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1913 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1915 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1918 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1920 * Document the Enhances relationship
1921 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1922 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1923 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1924 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1925 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1926 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1928 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1930 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1931 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1932 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1933 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1935 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1936 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1937 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1938 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1939 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1941 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1943 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1946 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1947 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1949 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1950 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1951 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1952 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1953 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1954 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1955 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1956 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1957 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1959 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1961 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1963 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1966 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1967 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1968 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1969 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1970 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1971 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1972 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1973 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1974 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1975 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1976 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1977 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1978 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1979 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1980 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1981 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1982 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1983 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1984 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1985 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1986 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1988 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1989 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1991 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1993 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1996 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1997 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1998 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1999 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2000 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2001 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2002 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2003 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2004 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2005 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2006 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2007 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2008 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2009 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2010 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2011 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2012 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2013 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2014 list closes: Bug#53756
2015 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2016 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2017 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2018 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2019 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2020 policy closes: Bug#53760
2021 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2022 policy closes: Bug#53761
2023 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2024 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2025 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2026 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2027 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2028 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2029 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2030 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2031 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2032 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2033 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2035 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2036 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2037 to install with older fileutils.
2038 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2039 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2040 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2041 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2043 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2044 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2046 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2048 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2051 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2053 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2055 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2058 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2060 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2063 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2066 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2068 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2070 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2072 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2075 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2077 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2079 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2082 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2083 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2084 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2085 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2086 directoried (closes: #41547)
2087 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2088 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2089 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2090 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2091 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2092 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2093 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2094 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2095 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2096 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2097 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2099 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2100 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2101 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2102 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2103 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2104 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2105 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2107 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2108 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2109 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2110 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2112 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2114 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2116 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2117 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2119 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2121 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2124 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2126 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2128 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2131 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2133 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2134 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2135 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2136 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2137 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2138 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2139 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2140 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2141 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2142 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2143 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2144 this closes: Bug#38612
2145 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2146 before. closes: Bug#40864
2148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2150 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2153 officially uploaded.
2154 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2156 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2157 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2158 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2160 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2161 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2162 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2163 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2164 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2165 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2167 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2168 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2169 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2171 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2173 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2174 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2175 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2176 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2177 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2179 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2181 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2184 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2185 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2186 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2187 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2188 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2189 there). closes: Bug#34233
2190 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2191 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2192 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2193 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2194 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2196 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2198 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2201 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2202 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2203 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2206 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2207 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2208 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2209 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2210 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2213 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2214 number. closes: BUG#25911
2216 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2217 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2218 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2219 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2220 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2221 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2223 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2224 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2225 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2228 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2229 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2230 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2232 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2233 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2234 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2235 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2237 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2238 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2239 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2241 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2243 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2244 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2245 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2246 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2247 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2248 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2249 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2250 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2253 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2255 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2256 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2259 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2261 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2265 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2267 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2270 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2271 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2272 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2273 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2274 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2275 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2276 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2278 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2279 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2281 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2283 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2285 * non-maintainer release
2286 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2287 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2289 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2290 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2291 * no content changes
2292 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2294 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2296 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2300 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2302 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2306 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2307 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2308 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2310 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2311 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2313 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2314 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2315 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2316 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2318 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2319 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2320 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2321 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2322 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2323 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2324 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2326 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2327 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2328 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2331 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2332 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2333 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2335 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2336 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2337 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2339 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2340 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2342 * New version numbering scheme:
2344 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2345 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2346 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2349 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2350 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2351 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2352 differ between the manuals.
2354 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2355 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2356 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2357 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2359 * Packaging changes:
2361 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2362 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2364 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2366 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2368 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2372 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2373 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2374 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2376 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2377 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2380 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2381 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2382 file extension as the referenced file
2384 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2385 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2387 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2388 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2389 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2390 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2393 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2394 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2395 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2397 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2398 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2399 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2400 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2403 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2404 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2407 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2408 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2409 reasonable default configuration
2411 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2412 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2413 by all news servers and clients
2415 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2416 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2417 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2418 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2419 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2421 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2422 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2425 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2427 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2428 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2430 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2433 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2434 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2436 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2437 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2439 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2441 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2443 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2446 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2447 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2448 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2450 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2452 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2453 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2454 * Don't use debstd anymore
2456 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2458 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2461 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2462 contrib/non-free policy
2463 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2464 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2465 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2466 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2467 - new section about `Daemons'
2468 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2469 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2470 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2471 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2472 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2473 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2474 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2475 * SGML source code included in package
2476 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2478 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2480 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2483 - completely reworked structure
2484 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2485 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2486 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2487 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2488 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2489 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2490 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2491 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2492 - mention "orphaned packages"
2493 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2494 distributions' policy
2495 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2496 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2497 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2498 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2499 - added section about arch spec strings
2500 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2501 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2502 - added section about "menus"
2503 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2504 the new documentation policy soon
2505 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2506 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2508 - added section about editors and pagers
2509 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2510 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2511 - added section about device files
2512 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2513 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2514 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2516 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2517 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2518 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2519 - Added new section about obsolete names
2520 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2521 * Fixed package's description
2523 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2525 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2529 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2531 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2534 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2535 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2536 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2538 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2540 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2543 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2544 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2546 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2547 and upload it "byhand" too.
2549 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2551 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2555 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2556 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2557 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2558 functionality must not have the same name.
2559 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2560 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2561 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2562 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2563 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2564 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2565 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2567 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2568 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2569 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2570 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2571 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2572 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2573 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2574 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2577 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2579 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2581 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2583 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2584 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2585 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2586 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2587 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2590 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2592 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2594 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2596 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2597 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2598 description of deb file format.
2599 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2600 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2602 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2604 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2605 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2607 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2609 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2611 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2612 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2613 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2614 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2615 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2616 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2617 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2618 packages in section on Procedure
2619 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2620 a package maintainer
2621 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2622 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2623 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2625 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2626 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2627 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2628 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2629 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2630 on various shlib files
2631 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2632 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2633 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2635 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2637 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2639 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2640 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2641 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2643 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2644 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2645 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2646 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2647 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2649 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2651 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2653 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2655 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2657 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2658 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2659 compatibility go in contrib.
2661 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2662 instructions in policy manual.
2663 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2666 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2668 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2670 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2671 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2672 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2673 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2675 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2676 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2679 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2681 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2683 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2684 * More detail about changelog format names.
2686 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2687 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2691 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2693 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2695 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2697 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2699 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2701 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2703 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2705 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2706 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2707 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2709 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2711 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2713 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2715 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2717 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2721 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100