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 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
14 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
16 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
17 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
18 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
19 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
20 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
21 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
22 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
23 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
24 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
25 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
26 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
27 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
28 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
29 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
32 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
34 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
35 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
36 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
37 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
42 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
43 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
45 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
46 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
47 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
48 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
53 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
57 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
58 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
59 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
62 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
63 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
64 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
66 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
67 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
73 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
74 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
78 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
79 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
84 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
85 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
86 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
87 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
90 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
91 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
96 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
98 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
104 Closes: #459868, #581011
105 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
108 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
110 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
111 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
113 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
116 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
118 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
121 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
126 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
129 Closes: #501930, #593909
130 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
135 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
136 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
137 machine. (Closes: #591857)
138 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
139 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
140 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
141 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
142 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
143 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
144 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
145 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
146 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
147 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
149 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
150 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
151 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
152 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
153 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
154 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
155 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
156 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
157 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
158 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
159 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
160 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
161 than the version in oldstable.
162 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
163 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
164 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
165 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
166 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
167 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
168 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
169 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
170 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
171 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
172 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
173 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
174 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
175 package. (Closes: #609160)
177 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
179 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
218 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
220 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
225 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
227 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
233 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
234 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
239 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
244 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
245 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
249 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
250 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
254 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
255 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
259 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
264 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
265 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
269 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
271 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
272 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
273 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
274 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
275 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
276 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
277 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
278 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
279 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
281 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
282 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
283 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
284 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
285 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
286 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
288 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
290 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
296 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
299 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
300 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
301 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
302 and distribution license' (three times).
303 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
304 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
309 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
311 Proposed by Santiago Vila
312 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
319 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
325 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
329 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
336 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
340 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
342 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
343 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
346 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
348 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
349 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
352 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
356 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
360 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
365 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
366 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
370 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
371 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
375 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
376 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
381 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
382 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
383 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
386 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
387 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
392 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
393 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
397 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
398 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
399 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
400 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
401 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
402 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
403 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
404 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
405 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
406 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
407 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
408 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
409 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
410 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
411 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
412 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
413 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
414 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
415 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
416 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
417 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
418 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
419 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
420 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
421 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
422 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
423 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
424 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
425 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
426 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
427 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
428 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
430 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
432 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
434 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
438 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
440 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
441 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
445 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
448 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
449 Wording: Steve Langasek.
450 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
451 Seconded: Julien Cristau
452 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
455 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
456 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
457 Seconded: Russ Allbery
458 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
461 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
462 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
463 Seconded: Russ Allbery
465 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
466 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
467 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
468 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
469 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
470 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
471 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
472 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
475 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
476 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
477 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
478 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
479 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
480 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
481 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
483 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
484 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
485 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
486 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
487 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
488 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
489 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
492 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
493 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
494 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
495 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
496 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
498 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
501 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
505 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
506 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
509 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
511 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
514 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
518 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
519 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
523 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
528 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
529 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
532 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
533 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
541 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
546 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
547 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
551 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
556 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
561 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
562 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
566 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
567 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
568 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
569 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
570 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
571 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
572 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
573 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
574 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
575 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
576 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
577 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
578 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
579 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
580 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
582 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
583 Source field descriptions.
584 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
585 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
586 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
587 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
588 description says otherwise.
590 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
592 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
596 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
599 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
600 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
603 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
607 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
612 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
613 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
617 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
618 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
619 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
620 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
624 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
625 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
626 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
627 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
628 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
630 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
631 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
635 * Add myself to Uploaders.
638 * Add myself to Uploaders.
639 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
641 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
642 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
643 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
645 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
647 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
650 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
654 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
657 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
659 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
660 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
664 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
665 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
667 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
669 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
670 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
674 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
675 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
679 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
682 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
684 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
685 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
687 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
689 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
690 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
691 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
694 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
695 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
699 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
700 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
703 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
705 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
706 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
707 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
708 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
709 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
710 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
711 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
712 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
713 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
714 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
715 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
716 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
717 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
718 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
719 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
720 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
721 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
722 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
723 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
724 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
725 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
726 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
727 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
728 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
729 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
730 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
731 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
732 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
733 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
734 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
736 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
737 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
738 links was completed long ago.
739 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
741 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
743 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
746 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
748 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
750 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
753 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
754 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
755 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
756 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
757 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
758 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
759 Millan (Closes: #209008).
760 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
761 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
763 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
765 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
767 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
768 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
769 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
770 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
771 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
772 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
773 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
775 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
776 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
777 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
778 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
780 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
781 Küster (Closes: #403391).
782 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
783 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
784 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
785 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
786 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
787 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
791 Closes: #186700, #458910
792 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
793 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
796 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
797 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
798 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
799 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
800 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
801 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
802 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
803 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
805 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
806 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
808 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
809 * Add an md5sums control file.
810 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
811 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
812 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
813 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
814 currently part of policy.
815 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
816 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
817 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
820 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
822 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
825 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
826 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
827 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
828 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
829 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
830 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
831 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
832 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
833 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
834 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
835 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
836 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
837 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
838 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
839 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
841 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
843 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
844 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
845 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
847 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
848 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
849 list?" (Closes: #412634).
850 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
851 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
852 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
853 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
854 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
855 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
856 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
857 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
858 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
859 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
860 debconf specification.
861 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
862 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
864 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
866 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
869 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
870 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
871 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
872 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
876 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
877 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
878 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
879 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
880 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
882 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
883 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
884 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
885 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
886 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
887 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
888 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
889 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
890 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
891 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
892 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
893 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
894 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
895 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
896 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
899 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
901 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
902 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
903 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
904 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
906 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
907 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
908 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
910 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
912 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
915 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
916 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
918 Polo (Closes: #372497).
919 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
920 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
923 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
924 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
925 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
926 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
927 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
929 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
931 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
933 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
934 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
935 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
936 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
937 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
938 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
940 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
942 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
945 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
946 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
947 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
950 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
952 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
954 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
957 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
958 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
959 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
960 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
961 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
962 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
963 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
964 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
965 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
967 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
968 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
970 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
971 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
972 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
974 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
976 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
977 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
980 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
982 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
985 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
986 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
987 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
988 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
989 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
990 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
991 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
992 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
993 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
994 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
995 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
996 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
997 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
998 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
999 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1000 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1001 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1002 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1003 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1005 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1006 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1007 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1008 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1009 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1010 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1011 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1013 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1014 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1015 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1016 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1018 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1019 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1020 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1021 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1022 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1023 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1024 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1025 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1026 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1027 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1028 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1031 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1034 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1035 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1036 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1037 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1038 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1039 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1040 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1041 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1042 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1043 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1045 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1047 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1051 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1052 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1053 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1054 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1055 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1056 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1057 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1058 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1059 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1060 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1061 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1065 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1067 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1068 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1070 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1072 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1074 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1076 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1078 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1079 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1080 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1082 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1085 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1087 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1090 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1091 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1092 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1094 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1095 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1097 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1099 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1101 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1105 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1106 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1107 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1108 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1110 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1111 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1112 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1113 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1116 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1117 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1120 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1121 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1123 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1124 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1125 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1127 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1128 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1129 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1130 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1133 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1134 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1135 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1137 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1138 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1139 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1142 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1143 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1144 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1146 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1147 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1148 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1150 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1151 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1152 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1153 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1154 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1155 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1156 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1157 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1159 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1161 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1165 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1166 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1167 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1168 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1169 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1170 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1171 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1172 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1174 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1175 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1176 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1177 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1178 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1179 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1180 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1181 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1182 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1183 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1184 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1185 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1186 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1187 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1188 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1189 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1193 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1194 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1197 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1198 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1199 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1201 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1202 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1203 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1204 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1205 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1206 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1208 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1209 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1211 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1212 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1213 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1214 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1215 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1216 Closes: #185943, #237049
1218 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1220 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1226 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1227 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1228 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1229 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1230 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1231 running. closes: Bug#187250
1232 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1233 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1234 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1235 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1236 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1237 user closes: Bug#176506
1239 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1241 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1245 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1246 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1247 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1248 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1249 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1250 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1251 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1252 deb-building toolchain.
1253 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1254 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1255 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1256 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1257 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1258 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1259 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1260 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1261 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1262 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1263 sections about changelog files.
1265 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1266 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1267 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1268 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1269 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1270 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1272 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1273 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1274 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1275 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1276 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1277 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1278 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1279 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1280 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1281 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1282 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1283 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1284 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1285 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1286 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1287 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1288 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1289 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1290 for the restructuring
1292 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1294 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1299 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1300 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1301 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1302 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1303 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1304 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1306 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1307 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1308 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1309 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1310 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1311 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1312 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1314 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1315 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1316 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1317 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1319 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1321 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1325 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1326 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1327 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1328 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1329 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1331 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1332 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1333 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1334 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1336 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1337 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1338 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1339 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1340 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1341 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1342 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1343 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1344 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1345 offtopic stuff, too.
1346 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1347 script should start it, closes: #60979
1348 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1349 "should", closes: #170019
1350 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1351 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1352 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1353 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1354 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1355 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1356 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1357 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1360 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1362 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1366 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1367 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1368 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1369 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1370 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1371 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1372 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1373 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1375 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1376 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1377 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1378 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1379 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1380 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1381 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1382 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1383 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1385 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1386 file, closes: Bug#65764
1388 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1390 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1393 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1394 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1395 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1396 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1397 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1398 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1399 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1400 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1401 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1402 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1403 details. closes: Bug#133030
1404 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1405 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1406 parts of Bug#161455.
1408 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1410 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1413 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1414 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1415 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1416 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1417 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1418 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1419 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1420 not. closes: Bug#139820
1421 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1422 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1423 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1424 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1425 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1426 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1427 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1428 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1429 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1430 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1432 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1434 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1435 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1436 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1437 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1438 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1439 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1440 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1441 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1442 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1443 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1444 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1445 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1446 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1447 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1448 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1449 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1450 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1451 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1452 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1453 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1455 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1456 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1457 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1458 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1459 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1460 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1461 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1463 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1464 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1465 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1466 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1467 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1468 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1469 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1470 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1471 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1473 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1475 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1478 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1479 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1480 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1481 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1482 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1483 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1484 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1485 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1486 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1487 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1488 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1489 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1490 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1491 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1492 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1493 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1494 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1495 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1496 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1497 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1498 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1499 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1501 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1503 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1506 medium, high, emergency.
1507 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1508 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1509 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1510 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1511 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1514 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1515 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1516 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1518 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1519 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1520 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1521 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1522 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1523 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1524 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1527 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1529 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1532 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1533 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1534 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1536 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1537 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1538 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1539 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1540 debian/rules to do this
1541 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1542 patches are incorporated upstream
1543 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1544 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1545 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1546 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1547 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1548 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1550 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1551 system closes: Bug#91249
1552 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1553 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1554 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1555 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1556 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1557 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1558 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1559 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1560 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1561 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1562 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1563 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1564 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1566 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1568 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1571 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1572 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1573 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1575 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1576 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1577 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1579 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1582 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1584 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1587 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1588 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1589 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1590 package for the time being
1591 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1592 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1593 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1594 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1595 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1596 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1597 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1598 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1599 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1600 Build-Depends arch syntax
1601 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1603 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1604 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1606 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1607 from policy maintenance duties.
1608 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1609 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1611 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1613 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1617 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1619 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1622 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1623 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1624 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1625 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1626 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1627 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1628 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1629 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1630 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1631 minor version number for this
1632 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1633 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1634 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1635 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1636 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1637 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1638 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1639 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1640 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1642 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1644 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1647 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1648 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1649 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1650 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1652 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1654 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1655 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1656 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1657 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1658 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1659 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1660 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1661 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1662 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1663 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1664 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1665 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1666 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1667 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1668 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1669 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1672 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1674 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1677 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1679 * Document the Enhances relationship
1680 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1681 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1682 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1683 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1684 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1685 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1687 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1689 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1690 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1691 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1692 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1694 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1695 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1696 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1697 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1698 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1702 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1705 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1706 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1708 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1709 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1710 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1711 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1712 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1713 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1714 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1715 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1716 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1718 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1722 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1725 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1726 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1727 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1728 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1729 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1730 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1731 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1732 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1733 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1734 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1735 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1736 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1737 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1738 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1739 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1740 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1741 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1742 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1743 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1744 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1745 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1747 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1748 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1750 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1752 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1755 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1756 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1757 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1758 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1759 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1760 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1761 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1762 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1763 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1764 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1765 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1766 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1767 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1768 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1769 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1770 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1771 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1772 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1773 list closes: Bug#53756
1774 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1775 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1776 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1777 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1778 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1779 policy closes: Bug#53760
1780 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1781 policy closes: Bug#53761
1782 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1783 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1784 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1785 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1786 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1787 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1788 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1789 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1790 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1791 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1792 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1794 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1795 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1796 to install with older fileutils.
1797 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1798 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1799 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1800 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1802 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1803 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1805 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1807 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1810 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1812 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1814 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1817 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1819 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1822 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1825 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1827 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1829 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1831 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1834 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1836 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1838 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1841 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1842 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1843 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1844 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1845 directoried (closes: #41547)
1846 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1847 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1848 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1849 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1850 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1851 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1852 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1853 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1854 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1855 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1856 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1858 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1859 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1860 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1861 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1862 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1863 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1864 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1866 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1867 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1868 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1869 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1871 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1873 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1875 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1876 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1878 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1880 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1883 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1885 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1887 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1890 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1892 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1893 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1894 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1895 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1896 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1897 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1898 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1899 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1900 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1901 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1902 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1903 this closes: Bug#38612
1904 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1905 before. closes: Bug#40864
1907 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1909 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1912 officially uploaded.
1913 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1915 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1916 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1917 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1919 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1920 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1921 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1922 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1923 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1924 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1926 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1927 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1928 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1930 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1932 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1933 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1934 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1935 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1936 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1938 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1940 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1943 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1944 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1945 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1946 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1947 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1948 there). closes: Bug#34233
1949 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1950 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1951 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1952 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1953 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1955 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1957 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1960 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1961 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1962 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1965 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1966 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1967 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1968 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1969 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1972 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1973 number. closes: BUG#25911
1975 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1976 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1977 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1978 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1979 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1980 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1982 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1983 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1984 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1987 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1988 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1989 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1991 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1992 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1993 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1994 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1996 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1997 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1998 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2000 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2002 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2003 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2004 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2005 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2006 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2007 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2008 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2009 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2012 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2014 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2015 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2018 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2020 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2024 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2026 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2029 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2030 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2031 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2032 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2033 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2034 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2035 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2037 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2038 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2040 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2042 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2044 * non-maintainer release
2045 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2046 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2048 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2049 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2050 * no content changes
2051 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2053 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2055 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2059 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2061 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2065 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2066 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2067 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2069 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2070 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2072 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2073 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2074 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2075 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2077 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2078 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2079 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2080 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2081 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2082 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2083 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2085 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2086 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2087 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2090 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2091 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2092 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2094 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2095 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2096 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2098 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2099 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2101 * New version numbering scheme:
2103 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2104 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2105 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2108 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2109 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2110 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2111 differ between the manuals.
2113 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2114 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2115 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2116 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2118 * Packaging changes:
2120 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2121 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2123 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2125 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2127 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2131 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2132 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2133 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2135 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2136 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2139 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2140 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2141 file extension as the referenced file
2143 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2144 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2146 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2147 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2148 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2149 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2152 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2153 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2154 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2156 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2157 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2158 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2159 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2162 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2163 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2166 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2167 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2168 reasonable default configuration
2170 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2171 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2172 by all news servers and clients
2174 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2175 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2176 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2177 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2178 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2180 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2181 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2184 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2186 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2187 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2189 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2192 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2193 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2195 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2196 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2198 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2200 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2202 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2205 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2206 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2207 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2209 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2211 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2212 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2213 * Don't use debstd anymore
2215 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2217 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2220 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2221 contrib/non-free policy
2222 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2223 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2224 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2225 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2226 - new section about `Daemons'
2227 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2228 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2229 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2230 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2231 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2232 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2233 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2234 * SGML source code included in package
2235 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2237 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2239 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2242 - completely reworked structure
2243 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2244 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2245 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2246 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2247 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2248 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2249 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2250 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2251 - mention "orphaned packages"
2252 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2253 distributions' policy
2254 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2255 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2256 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2257 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2258 - added section about arch spec strings
2259 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2260 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2261 - added section about "menus"
2262 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2263 the new documentation policy soon
2264 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2265 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2267 - added section about editors and pagers
2268 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2269 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2270 - added section about device files
2271 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2272 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2273 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2275 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2276 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2277 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2278 - Added new section about obsolete names
2279 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2280 * Fixed package's description
2282 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2284 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2288 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2290 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2293 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2294 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2295 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2297 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2299 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2302 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2303 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2305 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2306 and upload it "byhand" too.
2308 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2310 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2314 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2315 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2316 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2317 functionality must not have the same name.
2318 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2319 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2320 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2321 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2322 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2323 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2324 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2326 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2327 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2328 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2329 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2330 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2331 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2332 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2333 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2336 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2338 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2340 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2342 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2343 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2344 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2345 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2346 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2349 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2351 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2353 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2355 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2356 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2357 description of deb file format.
2358 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2359 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2361 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2363 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2364 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2366 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2368 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2370 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2371 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2372 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2373 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2374 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2375 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2376 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2377 packages in section on Procedure
2378 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2379 a package maintainer
2380 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2381 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2382 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2384 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2385 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2386 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2387 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2388 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2389 on various shlib files
2390 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2391 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2392 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2394 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2396 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2398 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2399 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2400 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2402 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2403 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2404 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2405 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2406 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2408 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2410 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2412 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2414 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2416 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2417 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2418 compatibility go in contrib.
2420 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2421 instructions in policy manual.
2422 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2425 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2427 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2429 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2430 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2431 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2432 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2434 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2435 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2438 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2440 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2442 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2443 * More detail about changelog format names.
2445 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2446 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2450 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2452 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2454 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2456 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2458 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2460 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2462 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2464 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2465 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2466 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2468 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2470 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2472 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2474 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2476 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2480 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100