1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
17 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
18 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
21 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
23 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
28 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
29 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
30 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
34 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
35 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
36 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
37 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
38 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
40 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
41 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
42 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
43 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
44 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
45 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
46 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
47 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
48 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
49 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
50 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
51 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
52 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
53 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
54 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
55 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
56 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
57 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
58 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
59 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
60 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
61 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
62 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
65 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
67 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
68 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
69 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
76 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
78 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
79 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
80 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
81 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
86 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
90 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
91 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
92 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
95 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
96 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
97 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
99 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
100 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
106 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
107 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
108 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
111 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
112 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
117 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
118 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
119 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
120 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
123 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
124 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
129 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
131 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
137 Closes: #459868, #581011
138 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
141 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
144 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
146 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
149 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
151 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
159 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
162 Closes: #501930, #593909
163 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
168 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
169 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
170 machine. (Closes: #591857)
171 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
172 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
173 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
174 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
175 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
176 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
177 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
178 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
179 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
180 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
182 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
183 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
184 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
185 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
186 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
187 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
188 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
189 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
190 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
191 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
192 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
193 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
194 than the version in oldstable.
195 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
196 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
197 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
198 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
199 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
200 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
201 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
202 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
203 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
204 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
205 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
206 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
207 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
208 package. (Closes: #609160)
210 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
212 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
220 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
221 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
225 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
236 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
240 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
245 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
246 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
250 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
251 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
253 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
258 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
260 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
261 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
266 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
267 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
272 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
273 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
277 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
278 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
282 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
283 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
287 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
288 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
292 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
293 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
297 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
302 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
304 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
305 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
306 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
307 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
308 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
309 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
310 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
311 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
312 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
314 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
315 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
316 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
317 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
318 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
319 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
321 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
323 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
329 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
332 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
333 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
334 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
335 and distribution license' (three times).
336 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
337 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
342 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
344 Proposed by Santiago Vila
345 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
352 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
358 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
359 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
362 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
364 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
365 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
373 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
375 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
376 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
379 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
381 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
382 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
385 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
387 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
388 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
389 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
398 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
403 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
408 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
414 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
415 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
416 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
419 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
420 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
425 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
426 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
430 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
431 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
432 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
433 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
434 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
435 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
436 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
437 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
438 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
439 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
440 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
441 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
442 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
443 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
444 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
445 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
446 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
447 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
448 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
449 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
450 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
451 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
452 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
453 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
454 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
455 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
456 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
457 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
458 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
459 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
460 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
461 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
463 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
465 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
467 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
471 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
473 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
474 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
478 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
481 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
482 Wording: Steve Langasek.
483 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
484 Seconded: Julien Cristau
485 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
488 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
489 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery
491 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
494 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
495 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
496 Seconded: Russ Allbery
498 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
499 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
500 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
501 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
502 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
503 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
504 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
505 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
508 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
509 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
510 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
511 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
512 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
513 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
514 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
516 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
517 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
518 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
519 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
520 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
521 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
522 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
525 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
526 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
527 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
528 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
529 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
531 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
534 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
535 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
538 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
539 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
542 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
544 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
551 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
552 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
556 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
562 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
565 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
566 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
568 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
569 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
574 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
575 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
579 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
580 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
584 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
594 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
595 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
599 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
600 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
601 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
602 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
603 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
604 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
605 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
606 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
607 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
608 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
609 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
610 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
611 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
612 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
613 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
615 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
616 Source field descriptions.
617 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
618 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
619 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
620 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
621 description says otherwise.
623 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
625 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
629 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
632 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
633 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
635 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
636 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
640 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
641 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
645 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
646 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
650 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
651 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
652 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
653 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
657 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
658 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
659 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
660 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
661 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
663 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
664 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
668 * Add myself to Uploaders.
671 * Add myself to Uploaders.
672 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
674 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
675 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
676 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
678 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
680 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
683 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
688 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
690 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
692 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
693 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
697 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
700 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
702 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
703 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
707 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
712 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
713 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
715 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
717 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
718 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
720 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
722 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
723 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
724 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
727 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
728 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
732 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
733 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
736 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
738 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
739 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
740 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
741 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
742 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
743 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
744 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
745 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
746 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
747 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
748 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
749 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
750 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
751 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
752 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
753 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
754 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
755 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
756 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
757 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
758 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
759 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
760 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
761 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
762 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
763 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
764 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
765 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
766 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
767 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
769 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
770 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
771 links was completed long ago.
772 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
774 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
776 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
779 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
781 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
783 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
786 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
787 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
788 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
789 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
790 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
791 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
792 Millan (Closes: #209008).
793 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
794 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
796 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
798 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
800 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
801 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
802 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
803 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
804 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
805 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
806 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
808 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
809 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
810 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
811 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
813 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
814 Küster (Closes: #403391).
815 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
816 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
817 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
818 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
819 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
820 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
824 Closes: #186700, #458910
825 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
826 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
829 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
830 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
831 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
832 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
833 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
834 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
835 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
836 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
838 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
839 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
841 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
842 * Add an md5sums control file.
843 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
844 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
845 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
846 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
847 currently part of policy.
848 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
849 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
850 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
853 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
855 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
858 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
859 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
860 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
861 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
862 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
863 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
864 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
865 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
866 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
868 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
869 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
870 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
871 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
872 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
874 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
876 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
877 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
878 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
880 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
881 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
882 list?" (Closes: #412634).
883 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
884 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
885 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
886 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
887 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
888 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
889 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
890 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
891 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
892 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
893 debconf specification.
894 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
895 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
897 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
899 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
902 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
904 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
905 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
910 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
911 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
912 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
913 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
915 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
916 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
917 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
918 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
919 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
920 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
921 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
922 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
923 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
924 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
925 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
926 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
927 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
929 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
934 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
935 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
936 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
937 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
939 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
940 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
941 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
943 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
945 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
948 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
949 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
951 Polo (Closes: #372497).
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
953 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
955 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
956 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
957 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
958 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
959 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
960 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
962 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
964 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
966 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
967 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
968 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
969 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
970 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
971 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
973 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
975 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
978 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
979 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
980 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
982 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
983 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
985 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
987 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
990 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
991 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
992 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
993 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
994 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
995 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
996 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
997 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
998 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1000 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1001 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1003 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1004 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1005 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1006 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1007 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1009 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1010 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1013 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1015 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1018 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1020 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1021 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1022 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1023 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1024 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1025 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1026 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1027 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1028 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1029 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1030 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1031 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1032 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1033 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1034 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1035 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1036 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1038 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1039 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1040 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1041 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1042 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1043 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1044 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1046 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1047 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1048 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1049 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1051 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1052 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1053 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1054 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1055 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1056 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1057 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1058 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1059 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1060 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1061 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1064 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1067 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1069 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1070 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1071 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1072 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1073 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1074 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1075 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1076 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1078 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1080 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1084 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1085 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1086 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1088 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1089 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1090 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1091 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1092 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1093 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1094 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1095 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1097 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1098 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1099 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1100 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1101 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1103 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1105 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1107 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1109 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1110 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1111 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1112 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1113 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1115 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1118 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1120 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1123 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1124 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1125 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1127 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1128 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1130 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1132 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1134 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1138 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1139 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1140 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1141 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1143 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1144 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1145 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1146 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1149 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1150 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1153 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1154 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1156 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1157 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1158 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1160 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1161 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1162 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1163 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1165 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1166 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1167 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1168 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1170 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1171 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1172 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1174 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1175 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1176 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1177 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1179 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1180 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1181 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1183 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1184 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1185 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1186 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1187 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1188 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1189 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1190 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1192 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1194 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1198 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1199 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1200 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1201 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1202 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1203 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1204 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1205 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1207 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1208 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1209 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1210 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1211 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1212 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1213 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1214 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1215 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1216 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1217 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1218 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1220 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1221 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1222 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1225 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1226 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1227 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1230 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1231 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1232 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1234 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1235 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1236 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1237 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1238 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1239 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1241 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1242 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1244 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1245 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1246 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1247 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1248 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1249 Closes: #185943, #237049
1251 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1253 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1259 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1260 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1261 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1262 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1263 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1264 running. closes: Bug#187250
1265 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1266 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1267 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1268 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1269 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1270 user closes: Bug#176506
1272 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1274 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1278 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1279 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1280 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1281 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1282 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1283 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1284 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1285 deb-building toolchain.
1286 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1287 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1288 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1289 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1290 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1291 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1292 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1293 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1294 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1295 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1296 sections about changelog files.
1298 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1299 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1300 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1301 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1302 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1303 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1305 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1306 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1307 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1308 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1309 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1310 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1311 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1312 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1313 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1314 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1315 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1316 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1317 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1318 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1319 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1320 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1321 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1322 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1323 for the restructuring
1325 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1327 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1332 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1333 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1334 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1335 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1336 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1337 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1339 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1340 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1341 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1342 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1343 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1344 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1345 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1347 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1348 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1349 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1350 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1352 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1354 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1358 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1359 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1360 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1361 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1362 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1364 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1365 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1366 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1367 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1369 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1370 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1371 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1372 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1373 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1374 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1375 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1376 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1377 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1378 offtopic stuff, too.
1379 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1380 script should start it, closes: #60979
1381 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1382 "should", closes: #170019
1383 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1384 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1385 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1386 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1387 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1388 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1389 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1390 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1393 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1395 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1399 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1400 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1401 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1402 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1403 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1404 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1405 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1406 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1408 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1409 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1410 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1411 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1412 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1413 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1414 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1415 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1416 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1418 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1419 file, closes: Bug#65764
1421 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1423 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1426 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1427 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1428 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1429 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1430 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1431 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1432 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1433 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1434 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1435 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1436 details. closes: Bug#133030
1437 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1438 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1439 parts of Bug#161455.
1441 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1443 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1446 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1447 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1448 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1449 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1450 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1451 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1452 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1453 not. closes: Bug#139820
1454 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1455 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1456 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1457 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1458 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1459 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1460 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1461 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1462 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1463 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1465 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1467 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1468 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1469 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1470 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1471 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1472 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1473 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1474 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1475 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1476 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1477 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1478 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1479 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1480 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1481 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1482 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1483 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1484 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1485 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1486 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1488 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1489 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1490 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1491 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1492 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1493 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1494 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1496 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1497 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1498 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1499 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1500 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1501 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1502 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1503 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1504 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1506 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1508 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1511 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1512 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1513 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1514 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1515 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1516 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1517 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1518 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1519 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1520 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1521 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1522 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1523 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1524 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1525 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1526 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1527 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1528 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1529 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1530 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1531 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1532 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1534 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1536 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1539 medium, high, emergency.
1540 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1541 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1542 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1543 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1544 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1547 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1548 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1549 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1551 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1552 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1553 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1554 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1555 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1556 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1557 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1560 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1562 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1565 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1566 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1567 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1569 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1570 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1571 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1572 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1573 debian/rules to do this
1574 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1575 patches are incorporated upstream
1576 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1577 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1578 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1579 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1580 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1581 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1583 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1584 system closes: Bug#91249
1585 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1586 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1587 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1588 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1589 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1590 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1591 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1592 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1593 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1594 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1595 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1596 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1597 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1599 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1601 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1604 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1605 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1606 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1608 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1609 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1610 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1612 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1615 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1617 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1620 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1621 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1622 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1623 package for the time being
1624 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1625 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1626 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1627 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1628 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1629 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1630 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1631 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1632 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1633 Build-Depends arch syntax
1634 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1636 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1637 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1639 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1640 from policy maintenance duties.
1641 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1642 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1644 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1646 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1650 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1652 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1655 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1656 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1657 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1658 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1659 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1660 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1661 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1662 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1663 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1664 minor version number for this
1665 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1666 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1667 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1668 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1669 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1670 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1671 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1672 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1673 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1675 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1677 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1680 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1681 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1682 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1683 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1685 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1687 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1688 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1689 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1690 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1691 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1692 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1693 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1694 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1695 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1696 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1697 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1698 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1699 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1700 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1701 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1702 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1705 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1707 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1710 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1712 * Document the Enhances relationship
1713 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1714 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1715 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1716 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1717 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1718 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1720 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1722 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1723 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1724 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1725 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1727 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1728 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1729 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1730 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1731 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1733 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1735 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1738 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1739 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1741 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1742 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1743 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1744 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1745 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1746 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1747 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1748 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1749 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1751 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1753 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1755 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1758 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1759 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1760 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1761 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1762 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1763 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1764 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1765 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1766 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1767 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1768 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1769 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1770 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1771 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1772 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1773 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1774 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1775 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1776 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1777 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1778 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1780 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1781 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1783 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1785 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1788 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1789 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1790 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1791 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1792 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1793 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1794 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1795 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1796 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1797 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1798 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1799 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1800 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1801 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1802 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1803 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1804 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1805 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1806 list closes: Bug#53756
1807 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1808 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1809 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1810 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1811 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1812 policy closes: Bug#53760
1813 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1814 policy closes: Bug#53761
1815 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1816 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1817 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1818 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1819 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1820 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1821 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1822 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1823 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1824 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1825 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1827 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1828 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1829 to install with older fileutils.
1830 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1831 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1832 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1833 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1835 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1836 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1838 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1840 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1843 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1847 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1850 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1852 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1855 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1858 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1860 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1862 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1864 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1867 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1869 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1871 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1874 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1875 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1876 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1877 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1878 directoried (closes: #41547)
1879 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1880 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1881 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1882 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1883 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1884 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1885 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1886 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1887 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1888 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1889 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1891 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1892 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1893 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1894 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1895 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1896 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1897 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1899 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1900 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1901 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1902 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1904 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1906 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1908 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1909 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1911 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1913 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1916 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1918 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1920 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1923 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1925 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1926 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1927 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1928 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1929 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1930 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1931 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1932 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1933 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1934 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1935 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1936 this closes: Bug#38612
1937 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1938 before. closes: Bug#40864
1940 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1942 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1945 officially uploaded.
1946 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1948 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1949 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1950 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1952 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1953 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1954 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1955 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1956 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1957 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1959 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1960 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1961 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1963 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1965 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1966 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1967 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1968 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1969 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1971 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1973 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1976 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1977 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1978 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1979 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1980 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1981 there). closes: Bug#34233
1982 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1983 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1984 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1985 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1986 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1988 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1990 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1993 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1994 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1995 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1998 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1999 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2000 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2001 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2002 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2005 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2006 number. closes: BUG#25911
2008 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2009 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2010 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2011 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2012 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2013 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2015 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2016 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2017 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2020 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2021 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2022 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2024 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2025 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2026 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2027 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2029 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2030 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2031 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2033 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2035 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2036 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2037 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2038 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2039 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2040 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2041 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2042 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2045 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2047 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2048 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2051 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2053 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2057 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2059 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2062 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2063 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2064 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2065 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2066 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2067 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2068 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2070 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2071 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2073 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2075 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2077 * non-maintainer release
2078 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2079 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2081 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2082 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2083 * no content changes
2084 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2086 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2088 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2092 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2094 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2098 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2099 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2100 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2102 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2103 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2105 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2106 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2107 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2108 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2110 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2111 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2112 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2113 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2114 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2115 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2116 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2118 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2119 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2120 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2123 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2124 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2125 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2127 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2128 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2129 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2131 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2132 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2134 * New version numbering scheme:
2136 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2137 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2138 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2141 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2142 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2143 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2144 differ between the manuals.
2146 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2147 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2148 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2149 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2151 * Packaging changes:
2153 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2154 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2156 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2158 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2160 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2164 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2165 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2166 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2168 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2169 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2172 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2173 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2174 file extension as the referenced file
2176 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2177 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2179 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2180 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2181 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2182 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2185 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2186 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2187 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2189 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2190 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2191 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2192 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2195 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2196 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2199 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2200 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2201 reasonable default configuration
2203 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2204 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2205 by all news servers and clients
2207 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2208 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2209 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2210 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2211 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2213 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2214 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2217 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2219 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2220 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2222 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2225 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2226 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2228 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2229 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2231 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2233 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2235 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2238 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2239 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2240 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2242 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2244 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2245 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2246 * Don't use debstd anymore
2248 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2250 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2253 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2254 contrib/non-free policy
2255 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2256 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2257 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2258 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2259 - new section about `Daemons'
2260 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2261 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2262 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2263 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2264 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2265 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2266 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2267 * SGML source code included in package
2268 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2270 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2272 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2275 - completely reworked structure
2276 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2277 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2278 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2279 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2280 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2281 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2282 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2283 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2284 - mention "orphaned packages"
2285 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2286 distributions' policy
2287 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2288 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2289 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2290 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2291 - added section about arch spec strings
2292 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2293 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2294 - added section about "menus"
2295 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2296 the new documentation policy soon
2297 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2298 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2300 - added section about editors and pagers
2301 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2302 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2303 - added section about device files
2304 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2305 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2306 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2308 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2309 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2310 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2311 - Added new section about obsolete names
2312 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2313 * Fixed package's description
2315 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2317 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2321 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2323 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2326 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2327 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2328 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2330 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2332 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2335 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2336 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2338 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2339 and upload it "byhand" too.
2341 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2343 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2347 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2348 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2349 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2350 functionality must not have the same name.
2351 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2352 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2353 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2354 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2355 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2356 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2357 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2359 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2360 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2361 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2362 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2363 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2364 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2365 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2366 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2369 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2371 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2373 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2375 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2376 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2377 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2378 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2379 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2382 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2384 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2386 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2388 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2389 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2390 description of deb file format.
2391 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2392 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2394 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2396 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2397 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2399 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2401 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2403 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2404 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2405 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2406 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2407 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2408 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2409 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2410 packages in section on Procedure
2411 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2412 a package maintainer
2413 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2414 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2415 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2417 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2418 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2419 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2420 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2421 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2422 on various shlib files
2423 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2424 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2425 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2427 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2429 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2431 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2432 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2433 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2435 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2436 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2437 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2438 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2439 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2441 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2443 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2445 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2447 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2449 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2450 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2451 compatibility go in contrib.
2453 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2454 instructions in policy manual.
2455 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2458 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2460 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2462 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2463 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2464 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2465 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2467 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2468 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2471 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2473 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2475 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2476 * More detail about changelog format names.
2478 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2479 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2483 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2485 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2487 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2489 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2491 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2493 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2495 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2497 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2498 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2499 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2501 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2503 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2505 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2507 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2509 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2513 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100