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 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
17 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
18 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
19 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
20 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
21 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
24 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
26 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
27 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
28 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
35 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
38 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
39 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
41 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
45 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
46 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
50 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
51 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
52 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
54 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
55 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
61 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
62 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
63 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
66 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
67 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
72 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
73 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
74 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
75 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
78 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
79 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:55:12 +0100
86 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
89 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 Closes: #459868, #581011
93 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
94 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
96 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
98 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
99 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
101 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
103 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
104 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
106 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
108 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
113 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
114 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
117 Closes: #501930, #593909
118 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
123 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
124 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
125 machine. (Closes: #591857)
126 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
127 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
128 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
129 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
130 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
131 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
132 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
133 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
134 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
135 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
137 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
138 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
139 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
140 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
141 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
142 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
143 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
144 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
145 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
146 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
147 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
148 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
149 than the version in oldstable.
150 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
151 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
152 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
153 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
154 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
155 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
156 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
157 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
158 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
159 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
160 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
161 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
162 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
163 package. (Closes: #609160)
165 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
167 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
175 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
181 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
185 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
190 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
191 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
195 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
200 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
201 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
205 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
206 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
208 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
210 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
211 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
213 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
215 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
216 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
227 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
232 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
233 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
237 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
242 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
257 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
259 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
260 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
261 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
262 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
263 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
264 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
265 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
266 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
267 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
269 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
270 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
271 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
272 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
273 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
274 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
276 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
278 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
284 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
287 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
288 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
289 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
290 and distribution license' (three times).
291 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
292 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
297 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
299 Proposed by Santiago Vila
300 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
307 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
308 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
312 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
313 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
317 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
319 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
328 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
330 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
331 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
334 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
336 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
340 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
342 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
343 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
344 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
347 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
348 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
353 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
354 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
358 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
359 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
363 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
369 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
370 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
371 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
374 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
375 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
380 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
381 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
385 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
386 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
387 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
388 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
389 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
390 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
391 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
392 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
393 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
394 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
395 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
396 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
397 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
398 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
399 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
400 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
401 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
402 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
403 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
404 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
405 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
406 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
407 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
408 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
409 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
410 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
411 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
412 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
413 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
414 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
415 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
416 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
418 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
420 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
422 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
426 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
428 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
429 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
433 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
436 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
437 Wording: Steve Langasek.
438 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
439 Seconded: Julien Cristau
440 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
443 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
444 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
445 Seconded: Russ Allbery
446 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
449 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
450 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery
453 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
454 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
455 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
456 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
457 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
458 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
459 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
460 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
463 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
464 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
465 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
466 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
467 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
468 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
469 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
471 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
472 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
473 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
474 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
475 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
476 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
477 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
480 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
481 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
482 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
483 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
484 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
486 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
489 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
493 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
494 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
497 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
499 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
506 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
507 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
511 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
516 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
517 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
520 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
521 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
523 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
529 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
534 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
535 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
539 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
540 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
544 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
545 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
549 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
550 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
554 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
555 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
556 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
557 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
558 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
559 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
560 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
561 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
562 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
563 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
564 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
565 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
566 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
567 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
568 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
570 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
571 Source field descriptions.
572 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
573 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
574 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
575 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
576 description says otherwise.
578 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
580 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
584 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
587 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
588 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
591 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
595 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
600 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
601 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
605 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
606 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
607 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
608 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
612 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
613 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
614 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
615 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
616 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
618 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
619 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
623 * Add myself to Uploaders.
626 * Add myself to Uploaders.
627 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
629 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
630 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
631 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
633 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
635 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
638 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
645 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
647 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
648 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
652 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
653 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
655 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
657 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
658 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
662 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
663 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
667 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
668 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
670 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
672 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
673 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
675 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
677 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
678 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
679 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
682 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
683 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
687 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
688 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
691 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
693 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
694 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
695 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
696 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
697 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
698 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
699 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
700 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
701 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
702 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
703 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
704 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
705 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
706 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
707 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
708 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
709 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
710 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
711 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
712 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
713 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
714 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
715 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
716 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
717 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
718 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
719 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
720 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
721 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
722 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
724 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
725 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
726 links was completed long ago.
727 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
729 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
731 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
734 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
736 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
738 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
741 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
742 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
743 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
744 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
745 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
746 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
747 Millan (Closes: #209008).
748 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
749 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
751 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
753 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
755 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
756 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
757 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
758 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
759 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
760 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
761 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
763 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
764 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
765 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
766 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
768 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
769 Küster (Closes: #403391).
770 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
771 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
772 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
773 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
774 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
775 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
776 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
779 Closes: #186700, #458910
780 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
781 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
785 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
786 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
787 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
788 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
789 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
790 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
791 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
793 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
794 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
796 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
797 * Add an md5sums control file.
798 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
799 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
800 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
801 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
802 currently part of policy.
803 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
804 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
805 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
808 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
810 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
813 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
814 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
815 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
816 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
817 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
818 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
819 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
820 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
821 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
823 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
824 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
825 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
826 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
827 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
829 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
831 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
832 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
833 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
835 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
836 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
837 list?" (Closes: #412634).
838 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
839 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
840 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
841 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
842 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
843 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
844 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
845 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
846 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
847 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
848 debconf specification.
849 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
850 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
852 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
854 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
857 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
858 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
859 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
860 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
865 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
866 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
867 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
868 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
870 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
871 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
872 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
873 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
874 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
875 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
876 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
877 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
878 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
879 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
880 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
881 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
882 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
884 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
890 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
891 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
892 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
894 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
895 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
896 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
900 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
903 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
904 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
906 Polo (Closes: #372497).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
908 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
910 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
911 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
912 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
913 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
915 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
917 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
919 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
921 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
922 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
923 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
924 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
925 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
926 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
928 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
930 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
933 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
934 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
935 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
938 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
940 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
942 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
945 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
946 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
947 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
948 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
949 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
950 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
951 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
952 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
953 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
955 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
956 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
958 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
959 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
960 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
962 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
964 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
965 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
968 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
970 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
973 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
975 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
976 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
977 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
978 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
979 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
980 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
981 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
982 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
983 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
984 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
985 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
986 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
987 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
988 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
989 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
990 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
991 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
993 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
994 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
995 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
996 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
997 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
998 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
999 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1001 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1002 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1003 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1004 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1006 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1007 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1008 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1009 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1010 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1011 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1012 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1013 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1014 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1015 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1016 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1019 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1022 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1024 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1025 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1026 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1027 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1028 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1029 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1030 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1031 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1033 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1035 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1039 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1041 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1042 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1043 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1044 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1045 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1047 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1048 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1049 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1052 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1053 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1054 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1055 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1056 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1057 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1058 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1059 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1060 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1061 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1062 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1064 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1066 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1067 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1068 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1070 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1073 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1075 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1078 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1079 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1080 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1082 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1083 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1085 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1087 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1089 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1093 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1094 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1095 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1096 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1097 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1098 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1099 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1100 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1101 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1104 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1105 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1108 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1109 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1110 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1111 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1112 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1113 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1115 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1116 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1117 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1118 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1121 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1122 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1123 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1125 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1126 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1127 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1130 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1131 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1132 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1134 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1135 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1136 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1138 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1139 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1140 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1141 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1142 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1143 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1144 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1145 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1147 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1149 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1153 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1154 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1155 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1156 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1157 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1158 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1159 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1160 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1162 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1163 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1164 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1165 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1166 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1167 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1168 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1169 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1170 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1171 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1172 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1173 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1174 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1175 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1176 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1177 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1181 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1182 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1185 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1186 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1187 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1189 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1190 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1191 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1192 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1193 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1194 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1196 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1197 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1199 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1200 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1201 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1202 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1203 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1204 Closes: #185943, #237049
1206 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1208 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1214 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1215 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1216 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1217 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1218 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1219 running. closes: Bug#187250
1220 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1221 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1222 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1223 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1224 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1225 user closes: Bug#176506
1227 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1229 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1233 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1234 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1235 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1236 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1237 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1238 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1239 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1240 deb-building toolchain.
1241 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1242 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1243 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1244 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1245 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1246 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1247 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1248 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1249 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1250 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1251 sections about changelog files.
1253 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1254 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1255 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1256 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1257 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1258 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1260 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1261 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1262 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1263 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1264 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1265 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1266 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1267 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1268 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1269 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1270 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1271 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1272 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1273 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1274 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1275 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1276 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1277 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1278 for the restructuring
1280 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1282 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1287 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1288 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1289 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1290 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1291 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1292 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1294 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1295 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1296 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1297 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1298 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1299 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1300 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1302 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1303 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1304 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1305 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1307 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1309 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1313 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1314 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1315 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1316 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1317 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1319 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1320 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1321 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1322 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1324 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1325 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1326 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1327 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1328 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1329 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1330 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1331 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1332 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1333 offtopic stuff, too.
1334 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1335 script should start it, closes: #60979
1336 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1337 "should", closes: #170019
1338 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1339 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1340 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1341 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1342 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1343 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1344 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1345 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1348 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1350 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1354 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1355 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1356 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1357 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1358 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1359 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1360 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1361 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1363 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1364 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1365 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1366 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1367 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1368 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1369 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1370 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1371 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1373 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1374 file, closes: Bug#65764
1376 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1378 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1381 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1382 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1383 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1384 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1385 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1386 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1387 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1388 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1389 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1390 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1391 details. closes: Bug#133030
1392 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1393 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1394 parts of Bug#161455.
1396 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1398 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1401 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1402 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1403 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1404 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1405 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1406 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1407 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1408 not. closes: Bug#139820
1409 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1410 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1411 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1412 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1413 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1414 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1415 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1416 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1417 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1418 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1420 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1422 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1423 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1424 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1425 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1426 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1427 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1428 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1429 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1430 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1431 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1432 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1433 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1434 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1435 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1436 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1437 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1438 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1439 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1440 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1441 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1443 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1444 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1445 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1446 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1447 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1448 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1449 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1451 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1452 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1453 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1454 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1455 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1456 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1457 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1458 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1459 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1463 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1466 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1467 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1468 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1469 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1470 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1471 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1472 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1473 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1474 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1475 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1476 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1477 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1478 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1479 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1480 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1481 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1482 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1483 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1484 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1485 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1486 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1487 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1489 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1491 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1494 medium, high, emergency.
1495 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1496 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1497 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1498 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1499 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1502 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1503 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1504 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1506 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1507 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1508 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1509 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1510 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1511 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1512 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1515 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1517 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1520 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1521 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1522 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1524 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1525 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1526 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1527 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1528 debian/rules to do this
1529 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1530 patches are incorporated upstream
1531 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1532 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1533 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1534 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1535 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1536 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1538 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1539 system closes: Bug#91249
1540 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1541 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1542 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1543 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1544 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1545 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1546 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1547 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1548 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1549 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1550 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1551 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1552 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1554 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1556 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1559 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1560 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1561 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1563 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1564 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1565 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1567 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1570 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1572 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1575 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1576 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1577 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1578 package for the time being
1579 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1580 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1581 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1582 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1583 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1584 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1585 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1586 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1587 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1588 Build-Depends arch syntax
1589 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1591 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1592 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1594 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1595 from policy maintenance duties.
1596 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1597 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1601 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1605 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1607 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1610 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1611 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1612 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1613 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1614 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1615 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1616 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1617 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1618 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1619 minor version number for this
1620 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1621 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1622 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1623 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1624 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1625 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1626 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1627 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1628 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1630 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1632 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1635 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1636 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1637 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1638 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1640 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1642 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1643 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1644 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1645 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1646 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1647 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1648 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1649 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1650 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1651 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1652 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1653 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1654 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1655 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1656 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1657 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1660 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1662 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1665 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1667 * Document the Enhances relationship
1668 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1669 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1670 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1671 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1672 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1673 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1675 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1677 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1678 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1679 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1680 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1682 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1683 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1684 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1685 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1686 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1688 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1690 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1693 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1694 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1696 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1697 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1698 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1699 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1700 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1701 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1702 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1703 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1704 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1706 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1708 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1710 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1713 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1714 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1715 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1716 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1717 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1718 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1719 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1720 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1721 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1722 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1723 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1724 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1725 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1726 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1727 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1728 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1729 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1730 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1731 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1732 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1733 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1735 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1736 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1740 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1743 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1744 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1745 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1746 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1747 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1748 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1749 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1750 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1751 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1752 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1753 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1754 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1755 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1756 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1757 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1758 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1759 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1760 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1761 list closes: Bug#53756
1762 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1763 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1764 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1765 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1766 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1767 policy closes: Bug#53760
1768 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1769 policy closes: Bug#53761
1770 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1771 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1772 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1773 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1774 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1775 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1776 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1777 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1778 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1779 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1780 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1782 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1783 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1784 to install with older fileutils.
1785 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1786 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1787 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1788 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1790 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1791 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1793 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1795 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1798 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1800 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1802 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1805 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1807 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1810 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1813 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1815 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1817 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1819 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1822 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1824 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1826 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1829 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1830 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1831 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1832 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1833 directoried (closes: #41547)
1834 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1835 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1836 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1837 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1838 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1839 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1840 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1841 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1842 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1843 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1844 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1846 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1847 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1848 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1849 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1850 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1851 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1852 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1854 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1855 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1856 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1857 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1859 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1861 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1863 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1864 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1866 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1868 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1871 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1875 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1878 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1880 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1881 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1882 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1883 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1884 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1885 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1886 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1887 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1888 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1889 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1890 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1891 this closes: Bug#38612
1892 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1893 before. closes: Bug#40864
1895 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1897 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1900 officially uploaded.
1901 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1903 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1904 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1905 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1907 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1908 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1909 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1910 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1911 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1912 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1914 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1915 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1916 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1918 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1920 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1921 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1922 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1923 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1924 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1926 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1928 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1931 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1932 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1933 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1934 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1935 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1936 there). closes: Bug#34233
1937 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1938 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1939 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1940 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1941 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1943 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1945 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1948 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1949 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1950 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1953 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1954 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1955 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1956 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1957 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1960 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1961 number. closes: BUG#25911
1963 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1964 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1965 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1966 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1967 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1968 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1970 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1971 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1972 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1975 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1976 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1977 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1979 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1980 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1981 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1982 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1984 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1985 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1986 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1988 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1990 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1991 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1992 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1993 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1994 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1995 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1996 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1997 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2000 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2002 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2003 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2006 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2008 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2012 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2014 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2017 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2018 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2019 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2020 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2021 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2022 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2023 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2025 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2026 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2028 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2030 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2032 * non-maintainer release
2033 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2034 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2036 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2037 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2038 * no content changes
2039 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2041 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2043 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2047 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2049 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2053 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2054 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2055 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2057 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2058 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2060 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2061 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2062 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2063 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2065 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2066 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2067 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2068 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2069 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2070 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2071 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2073 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2074 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2075 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2078 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2079 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2080 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2082 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2083 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2084 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2086 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2087 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2089 * New version numbering scheme:
2091 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2092 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2093 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2096 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2097 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2098 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2099 differ between the manuals.
2101 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2102 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2103 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2104 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2106 * Packaging changes:
2108 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2109 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2111 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2113 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2115 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2119 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2120 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2121 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2123 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2124 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2127 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2128 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2129 file extension as the referenced file
2131 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2132 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2134 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2135 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2136 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2137 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2140 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2141 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2142 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2144 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2145 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2146 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2147 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2150 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2151 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2154 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2155 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2156 reasonable default configuration
2158 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2159 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2160 by all news servers and clients
2162 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2163 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2164 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2165 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2166 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2168 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2169 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2172 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2174 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2175 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2177 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2180 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2181 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2183 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2184 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2186 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2188 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2190 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2193 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2194 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2195 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2197 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2199 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2200 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2201 * Don't use debstd anymore
2203 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2205 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2208 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2209 contrib/non-free policy
2210 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2211 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2212 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2213 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2214 - new section about `Daemons'
2215 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2216 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2217 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2218 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2219 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2220 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2221 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2222 * SGML source code included in package
2223 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2225 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2227 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2230 - completely reworked structure
2231 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2232 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2233 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2234 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2235 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2236 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2237 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2238 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2239 - mention "orphaned packages"
2240 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2241 distributions' policy
2242 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2243 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2244 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2245 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2246 - added section about arch spec strings
2247 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2248 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2249 - added section about "menus"
2250 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2251 the new documentation policy soon
2252 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2253 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2255 - added section about editors and pagers
2256 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2257 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2258 - added section about device files
2259 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2260 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2261 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2263 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2264 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2265 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2266 - Added new section about obsolete names
2267 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2268 * Fixed package's description
2270 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2272 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2276 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2278 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2281 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2282 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2283 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2285 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2287 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2290 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2291 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2293 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2294 and upload it "byhand" too.
2296 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2298 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2302 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2303 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2304 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2305 functionality must not have the same name.
2306 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2307 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2308 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2309 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2310 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2311 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2312 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2314 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2315 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2316 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2317 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2318 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2319 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2320 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2321 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2324 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2326 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2328 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2330 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2331 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2332 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2333 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2334 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2337 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2339 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2341 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2343 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2344 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2345 description of deb file format.
2346 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2347 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2349 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2351 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2352 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2354 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2356 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2358 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2359 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2360 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2361 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2362 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2363 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2364 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2365 packages in section on Procedure
2366 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2367 a package maintainer
2368 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2369 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2370 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2372 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2373 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2374 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2375 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2376 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2377 on various shlib files
2378 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2379 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2380 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2382 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2384 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2386 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2387 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2388 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2390 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2391 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2392 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2393 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2394 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2396 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2398 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2400 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2402 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2404 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2405 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2406 compatibility go in contrib.
2408 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2409 instructions in policy manual.
2410 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2413 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2415 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2417 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2418 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2419 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2420 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2422 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2423 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2426 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2428 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2430 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2431 * More detail about changelog format names.
2433 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2434 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2438 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2440 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2442 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2444 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2446 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2448 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2450 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2452 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2453 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2454 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2456 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2458 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2460 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2462 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2464 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2468 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100