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 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
37 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
38 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
42 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
43 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
44 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
45 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
46 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
47 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
48 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
49 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
50 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
51 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
52 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
55 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
57 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
59 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
60 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
61 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
63 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
64 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
65 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
72 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
77 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
81 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
82 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
83 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
84 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
89 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
94 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
96 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
99 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
100 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
101 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
104 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
105 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
110 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
112 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
115 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
116 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
117 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
118 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
120 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
121 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
122 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
123 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
124 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
125 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
126 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
127 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
128 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
129 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
130 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
131 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
132 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
133 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
134 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
135 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
136 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
138 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
139 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
140 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
141 good to know which version one is looking at.
142 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
143 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
144 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
145 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
146 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
147 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
148 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
150 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
151 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
152 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
153 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
154 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
156 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
157 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
158 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
160 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
161 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
162 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
163 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
165 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
167 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
171 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
172 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
173 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
174 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
175 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
176 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
177 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
178 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
179 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
180 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
185 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
186 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
191 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
192 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
196 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
198 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
199 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
203 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
204 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
207 Closes: #620870, #532120
208 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
209 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
214 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
215 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
216 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
220 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
221 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
222 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
223 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
224 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
226 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
227 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
228 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
229 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
230 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
231 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
232 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
233 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
234 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
235 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
236 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
237 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
238 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
239 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
240 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
241 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
243 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
245 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
246 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
247 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
248 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
249 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
250 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
251 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
252 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
253 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
254 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
257 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
259 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
260 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
261 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
262 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
267 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
268 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
270 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
271 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
272 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
273 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
278 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
282 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
283 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
284 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
287 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
288 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
289 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
291 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
292 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
298 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
299 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
300 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
303 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
304 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
309 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
310 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
311 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
312 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
315 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
316 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
317 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
320 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
321 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
326 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
328 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
334 Closes: #459868, #581011
335 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
338 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
340 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
341 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
343 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
346 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
348 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
350 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
351 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
355 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
356 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
359 Closes: #501930, #593909
360 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
361 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
365 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
366 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
367 machine. (Closes: #591857)
368 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
369 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
370 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
371 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
372 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
373 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
374 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
375 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
376 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
377 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
379 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
380 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
381 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
382 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
383 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
384 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
385 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
386 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
387 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
388 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
389 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
390 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
391 than the version in oldstable.
392 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
393 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
394 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
395 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
396 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
397 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
398 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
399 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
400 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
401 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
402 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
403 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
404 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
405 package. (Closes: #609160)
407 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
409 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
427 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
437 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
442 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
443 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
450 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
455 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
457 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
469 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
474 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
475 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
484 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
489 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
494 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
499 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
501 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
502 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
503 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
504 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
505 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
506 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
507 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
508 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
509 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
511 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
512 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
513 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
514 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
515 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
516 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
518 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
520 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
526 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
529 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
530 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
531 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
532 and distribution license' (three times).
533 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
534 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
539 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
541 Proposed by Santiago Vila
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
549 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
550 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
554 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
555 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
559 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
566 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
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: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
573 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
576 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
578 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
582 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
584 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
586 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
600 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
605 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
611 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
612 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
613 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
616 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
617 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
622 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
623 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
627 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
628 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
629 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
630 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
631 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
632 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
633 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
634 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
635 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
636 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
637 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
638 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
639 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
640 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
641 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
642 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
643 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
644 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
645 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
646 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
647 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
648 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
649 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
650 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
651 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
652 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
653 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
654 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
655 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
656 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
657 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
658 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
660 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
662 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
664 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
668 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
670 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
671 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
675 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
678 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
679 Wording: Steve Langasek.
680 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
681 Seconded: Julien Cristau
682 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
685 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
686 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
687 Seconded: Russ Allbery
688 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
691 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
692 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
693 Seconded: Russ Allbery
695 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
696 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
697 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
698 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
699 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
700 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
701 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
702 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
705 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
706 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
707 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
708 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
709 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
710 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
711 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
713 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
714 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
715 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
716 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
717 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
718 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
719 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
722 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
723 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
724 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
725 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
726 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
728 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
731 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
732 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
735 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
736 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
739 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
741 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
744 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
748 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
749 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
753 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
754 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
758 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
759 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
762 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
763 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
765 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
766 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
771 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
772 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
776 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
777 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
781 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
782 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
786 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
787 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
791 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
792 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
796 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
797 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
798 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
799 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
800 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
801 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
802 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
803 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
804 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
805 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
806 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
807 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
808 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
809 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
810 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
812 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
813 Source field descriptions.
814 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
815 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
816 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
817 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
818 description says otherwise.
820 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
822 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
826 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
829 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
830 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
832 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
833 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
834 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
835 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
837 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
838 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
840 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
842 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
843 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
844 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
847 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
848 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
849 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
850 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
854 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
855 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
856 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
857 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
858 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
860 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
861 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
865 * Add myself to Uploaders.
868 * Add myself to Uploaders.
869 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
871 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
872 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
873 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
875 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
877 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
880 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
885 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
887 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
889 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
890 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
894 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
895 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
897 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
899 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
900 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
904 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
905 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
909 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
910 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
912 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
914 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
915 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
917 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
919 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
920 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
921 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
924 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
925 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
929 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
930 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
931 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
932 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
933 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
935 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
936 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
937 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
938 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
939 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
940 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
941 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
942 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
943 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
944 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
945 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
946 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
947 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
948 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
949 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
950 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
951 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
952 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
953 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
954 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
955 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
956 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
957 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
958 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
959 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
960 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
961 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
962 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
963 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
964 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
966 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
967 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
968 links was completed long ago.
969 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
971 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
973 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
976 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
978 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
980 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
983 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
984 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
985 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
986 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
987 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
988 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
989 Millan (Closes: #209008).
990 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
991 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
993 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
995 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
997 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
998 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
999 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1000 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1001 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1002 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1003 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1005 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1006 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1007 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1008 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1010 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1011 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1012 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1013 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1014 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1015 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1016 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1017 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1018 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1021 Closes: #186700, #458910
1022 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1023 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1026 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1027 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1028 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1029 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1030 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1031 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1032 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1033 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1035 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1036 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1038 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1039 * Add an md5sums control file.
1040 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1041 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1042 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1043 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1044 currently part of policy.
1045 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1046 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1047 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1050 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1052 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1055 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1056 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1057 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1058 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1059 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1060 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1061 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1062 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1063 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1065 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1066 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1067 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1068 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1069 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1071 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1073 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1074 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1075 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1077 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1078 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1079 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1080 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1081 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1082 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1083 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1084 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1085 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1086 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1087 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1088 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1089 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1090 debconf specification.
1091 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1092 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1094 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1096 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1099 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1100 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1101 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1102 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1107 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1108 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1109 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1110 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1112 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1113 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1114 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1115 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1116 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1117 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1118 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1119 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1120 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1121 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1122 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1123 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1124 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1126 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1131 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1132 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1133 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1134 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1136 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1137 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1138 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1140 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1142 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1145 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1146 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1148 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1150 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1153 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1154 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1155 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1157 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1159 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1161 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1163 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1164 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1165 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1166 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1167 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1168 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1170 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1172 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1175 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1176 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1177 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1180 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1182 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1184 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1187 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1188 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1189 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1190 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1191 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1192 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1193 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1194 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1195 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1197 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1198 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1199 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1200 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1201 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1202 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1203 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1204 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1206 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1207 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1210 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1212 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1215 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1217 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1218 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1219 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1220 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1221 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1222 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1223 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1224 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1225 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1226 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1227 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1228 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1229 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1230 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1231 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1232 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1233 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1235 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1236 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1237 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1238 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1239 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1240 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1241 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1243 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1244 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1245 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1246 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1248 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1249 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1250 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1251 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1252 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1253 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1254 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1255 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1256 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1257 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1258 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1261 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1264 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1266 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1267 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1268 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1269 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1270 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1271 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1272 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1273 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1275 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1277 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1281 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1283 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1285 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1286 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1287 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1289 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1290 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1291 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1295 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1297 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1298 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1300 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1302 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1304 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1306 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1308 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1309 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1310 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1312 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1317 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1320 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1321 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1322 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1324 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1325 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1327 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1329 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1331 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1335 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1336 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1337 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1338 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1340 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1341 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1342 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1343 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1346 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1347 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1349 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1350 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1351 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1353 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1354 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1355 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1357 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1358 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1359 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1360 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1363 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1364 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1365 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1367 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1368 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1369 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1372 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1373 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1374 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1375 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1376 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1377 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1378 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1379 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1380 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1381 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1382 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1383 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1384 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1385 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1386 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1387 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1389 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1391 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1395 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1396 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1397 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1398 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1399 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1400 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1401 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1402 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1404 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1405 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1406 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1407 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1408 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1409 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1410 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1411 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1412 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1413 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1414 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1415 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1416 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1417 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1418 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1419 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1423 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1424 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1427 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1428 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1429 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1431 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1432 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1433 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1434 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1435 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1436 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1438 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1439 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1441 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1442 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1443 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1444 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1445 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1446 Closes: #185943, #237049
1448 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1450 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1456 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1457 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1458 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1459 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1460 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1461 running. closes: Bug#187250
1462 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1463 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1464 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1465 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1466 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1467 user closes: Bug#176506
1469 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1471 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1475 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1476 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1477 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1478 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1479 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1480 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1481 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1482 deb-building toolchain.
1483 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1484 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1485 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1486 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1487 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1488 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1489 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1490 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1491 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1492 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1493 sections about changelog files.
1495 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1496 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1497 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1498 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1499 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1500 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1502 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1503 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1504 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1505 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1506 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1507 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1508 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1509 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1510 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1511 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1512 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1513 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1514 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1515 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1516 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1517 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1518 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1519 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1520 for the restructuring
1522 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1524 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1529 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1530 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1531 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1532 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1533 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1534 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1536 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1537 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1538 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1539 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1540 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1541 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1542 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1544 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1545 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1546 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1547 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1549 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1551 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1555 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1556 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1557 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1558 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1559 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1561 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1562 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1563 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1564 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1566 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1567 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1568 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1569 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1570 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1571 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1572 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1573 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1574 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1575 offtopic stuff, too.
1576 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1577 script should start it, closes: #60979
1578 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1579 "should", closes: #170019
1580 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1581 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1582 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1583 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1584 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1585 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1586 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1587 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1590 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1592 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1596 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1597 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1598 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1599 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1600 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1601 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1602 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1603 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1605 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1606 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1607 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1608 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1609 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1610 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1611 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1612 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1613 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1615 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1616 file, closes: Bug#65764
1618 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1620 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1623 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1624 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1625 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1626 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1627 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1628 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1629 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1630 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1631 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1632 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1633 details. closes: Bug#133030
1634 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1635 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1636 parts of Bug#161455.
1638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1640 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1643 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1644 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1645 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1646 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1647 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1648 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1649 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1650 not. closes: Bug#139820
1651 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1652 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1653 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1654 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1655 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1656 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1657 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1658 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1659 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1660 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1662 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1664 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1665 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1666 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1667 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1668 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1669 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1670 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1671 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1672 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1673 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1674 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1675 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1676 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1677 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1678 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1679 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1680 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1681 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1682 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1683 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1685 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1686 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1687 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1688 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1689 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1690 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1691 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1693 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1694 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1695 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1696 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1697 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1698 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1699 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1700 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1701 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1703 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1705 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1708 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1709 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1710 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1711 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1712 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1713 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1714 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1715 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1716 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1717 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1718 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1719 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1720 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1721 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1722 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1723 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1724 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1725 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1726 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1727 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1728 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1729 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1731 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1733 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1736 medium, high, emergency.
1737 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1738 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1739 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1740 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1741 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1744 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1745 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1746 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1748 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1749 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1750 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1751 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1752 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1753 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1754 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1757 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1759 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1762 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1763 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1764 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1766 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1767 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1768 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1769 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1770 debian/rules to do this
1771 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1772 patches are incorporated upstream
1773 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1774 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1775 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1776 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1777 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1778 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1780 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1781 system closes: Bug#91249
1782 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1783 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1784 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1785 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1786 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1787 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1788 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1789 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1790 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1791 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1792 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1793 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1794 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1796 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1798 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1801 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1802 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1803 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1805 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1806 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1807 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1809 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1812 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1814 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1817 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1818 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1819 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1820 package for the time being
1821 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1822 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1823 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1824 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1825 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1826 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1827 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1828 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1829 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1830 Build-Depends arch syntax
1831 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1833 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1834 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1836 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1837 from policy maintenance duties.
1838 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1839 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1841 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1843 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1847 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1849 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1852 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1853 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1854 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1855 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1856 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1857 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1858 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1859 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1860 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1861 minor version number for this
1862 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1863 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1864 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1865 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1866 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1867 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1868 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1869 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1870 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1872 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1874 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1877 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1878 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1879 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1880 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1882 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1884 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1885 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1886 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1887 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1888 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1889 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1890 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1891 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1892 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1893 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1894 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1895 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1896 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1897 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1898 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1899 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1902 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1904 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1907 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1909 * Document the Enhances relationship
1910 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1911 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1912 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1913 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1914 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1915 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1917 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1919 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1920 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1921 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1922 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1924 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1925 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1926 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1927 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1928 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1932 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1935 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1936 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1938 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1939 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1940 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1941 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1942 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1943 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1944 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1945 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1946 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1948 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1950 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1952 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1955 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1956 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1957 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1958 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1959 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1960 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1961 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1962 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1963 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1964 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1965 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1966 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1967 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1968 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1969 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1970 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1971 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1972 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1973 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1974 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1975 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1977 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1978 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1980 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1982 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1985 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1986 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1987 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1988 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1989 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1990 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1991 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1992 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1993 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1994 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1995 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1996 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1997 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1998 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1999 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2000 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2001 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2002 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2003 list closes: Bug#53756
2004 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2005 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2006 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2007 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2008 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2009 policy closes: Bug#53760
2010 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2011 policy closes: Bug#53761
2012 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2013 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2014 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2015 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2016 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2017 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2018 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2019 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2020 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2021 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2022 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2024 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2025 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2026 to install with older fileutils.
2027 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2028 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2029 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2030 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2032 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2033 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2035 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2037 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2040 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2042 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2044 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2047 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2049 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2052 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2055 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2057 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2059 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2061 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2064 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2066 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2068 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2071 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2072 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2073 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2074 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2075 directoried (closes: #41547)
2076 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2077 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2078 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2079 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2080 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2081 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2082 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2083 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2084 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2085 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2086 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2088 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2089 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2090 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2091 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2092 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2093 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2094 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2096 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2097 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2098 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2099 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2101 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2103 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2105 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2106 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2108 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2110 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2113 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2115 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2117 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2120 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2122 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2123 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2124 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2125 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2126 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2127 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2128 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2129 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2130 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2131 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2132 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2133 this closes: Bug#38612
2134 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2135 before. closes: Bug#40864
2137 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2139 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2142 officially uploaded.
2143 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2145 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2146 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2147 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2149 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2150 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2151 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2152 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2153 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2154 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2156 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2157 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2158 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2160 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2162 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2163 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2164 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2165 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2166 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2168 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2170 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2173 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2174 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2175 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2176 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2177 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2178 there). closes: Bug#34233
2179 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2180 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2181 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2182 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2183 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2185 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2187 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2190 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2191 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2192 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2195 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2196 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2197 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2198 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2199 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2202 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2203 number. closes: BUG#25911
2205 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2206 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2207 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2208 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2209 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2210 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2212 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2213 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2214 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2217 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2218 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2219 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2221 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2222 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2223 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2224 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2226 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2227 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2228 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2230 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2232 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2233 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2234 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2235 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2236 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2237 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2238 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2239 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2242 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2244 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2245 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2248 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2250 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2254 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2256 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2259 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2260 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2261 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2262 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2263 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2264 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2265 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2267 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2268 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2270 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2272 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2274 * non-maintainer release
2275 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2276 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2278 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2279 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2280 * no content changes
2281 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2283 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2285 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2289 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2291 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2295 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2296 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2297 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2299 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2300 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2302 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2303 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2304 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2305 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2307 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2308 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2309 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2310 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2311 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2312 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2313 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2315 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2316 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2317 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2320 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2321 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2322 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2324 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2325 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2326 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2328 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2329 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2331 * New version numbering scheme:
2333 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2334 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2335 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2338 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2339 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2340 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2341 differ between the manuals.
2343 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2344 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2345 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2346 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2348 * Packaging changes:
2350 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2351 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2353 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2355 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2357 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2361 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2362 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2363 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2365 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2366 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2369 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2370 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2371 file extension as the referenced file
2373 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2374 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2376 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2377 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2378 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2379 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2382 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2383 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2384 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2386 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2387 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2388 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2389 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2392 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2393 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2396 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2397 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2398 reasonable default configuration
2400 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2401 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2402 by all news servers and clients
2404 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2405 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2406 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2407 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2408 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2410 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2411 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2414 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2416 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2417 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2419 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2422 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2423 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2425 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2426 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2428 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2430 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2432 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2435 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2436 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2437 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2439 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2441 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2442 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2443 * Don't use debstd anymore
2445 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2447 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2450 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2451 contrib/non-free policy
2452 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2453 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2454 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2455 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2456 - new section about `Daemons'
2457 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2458 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2459 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2460 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2461 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2462 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2463 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2464 * SGML source code included in package
2465 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2467 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2469 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2472 - completely reworked structure
2473 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2474 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2475 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2476 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2477 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2478 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2479 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2480 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2481 - mention "orphaned packages"
2482 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2483 distributions' policy
2484 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2485 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2486 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2487 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2488 - added section about arch spec strings
2489 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2490 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2491 - added section about "menus"
2492 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2493 the new documentation policy soon
2494 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2495 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2497 - added section about editors and pagers
2498 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2499 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2500 - added section about device files
2501 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2502 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2503 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2505 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2506 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2507 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2508 - Added new section about obsolete names
2509 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2510 * Fixed package's description
2512 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2514 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2518 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2520 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2523 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2524 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2525 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2527 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2529 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2532 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2533 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2535 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2536 and upload it "byhand" too.
2538 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2540 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2544 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2545 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2546 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2547 functionality must not have the same name.
2548 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2549 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2550 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2551 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2552 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2553 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2554 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2556 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2557 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2558 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2559 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2560 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2561 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2562 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2563 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2566 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2568 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2570 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2572 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2573 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2574 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2575 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2576 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2579 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2581 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2583 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2585 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2586 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2587 description of deb file format.
2588 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2589 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2591 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2593 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2594 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2596 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2598 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2600 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2601 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2602 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2603 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2604 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2605 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2606 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2607 packages in section on Procedure
2608 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2609 a package maintainer
2610 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2611 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2612 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2614 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2615 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2616 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2617 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2618 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2619 on various shlib files
2620 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2621 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2622 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2624 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2626 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2628 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2629 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2630 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2632 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2633 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2634 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2635 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2636 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2638 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2640 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2642 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2644 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2646 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2647 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2648 compatibility go in contrib.
2650 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2651 instructions in policy manual.
2652 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2655 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2657 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2659 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2660 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2661 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2662 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2664 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2665 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2668 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2670 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2672 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2673 * More detail about changelog format names.
2675 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2676 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2680 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2682 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2684 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2686 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2688 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2690 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2692 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2694 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2695 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2696 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2698 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2700 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2702 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2704 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2706 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2710 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100