1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
14 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
19 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
21 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
23 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
28 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
29 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
30 machine. (Closes: #591857)
31 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
32 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
33 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
34 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
35 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
36 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
37 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
38 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
39 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
40 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
42 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
43 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
44 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
45 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
46 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
47 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
48 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
49 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
50 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
51 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
52 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
53 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
54 than the version in oldstable.
55 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
56 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
57 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
58 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
59 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
60 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
61 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
62 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
63 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
65 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
67 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
85 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
86 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
90 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
91 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
105 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
108 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
110 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
111 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
113 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
115 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
121 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
122 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
127 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
132 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
133 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
138 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
142 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
143 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
153 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
157 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
159 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
160 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
161 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
162 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
163 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
164 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
165 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
166 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
167 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
169 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
170 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
171 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
172 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
173 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
174 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
176 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
178 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
184 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
187 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
188 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
189 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
190 and distribution license' (three times).
191 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
192 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
197 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
199 Proposed by Santiago Vila
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
213 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
214 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
217 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
219 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
228 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
231 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
234 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
236 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
240 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
242 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
244 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
253 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
258 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
259 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
263 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
264 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
269 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
270 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
271 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
274 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
275 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
280 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
281 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
285 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
286 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
287 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
288 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
289 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
290 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
291 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
292 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
293 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
294 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
295 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
296 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
297 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
298 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
299 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
300 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
301 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
302 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
303 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
304 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
305 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
306 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
307 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
308 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
309 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
310 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
311 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
312 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
313 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
314 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
315 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
316 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
318 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
320 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
322 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
326 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
328 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
329 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
333 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
336 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
337 Wording: Steve Langasek.
338 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
339 Seconded: Julien Cristau
340 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
343 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
344 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
345 Seconded: Russ Allbery
346 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
349 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
350 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
351 Seconded: Russ Allbery
353 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
354 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
355 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
356 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
357 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
358 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
359 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
360 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
363 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
364 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
365 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
366 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
367 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
368 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
369 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
371 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
372 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
373 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
374 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
375 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
376 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
377 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
380 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
381 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
382 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
383 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
384 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
386 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
389 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
390 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
393 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
394 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
397 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
399 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
402 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
407 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
411 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
416 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
417 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
420 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
421 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
423 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
424 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
429 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
434 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
435 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
439 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
449 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
450 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
454 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
455 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
456 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
457 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
458 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
459 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
460 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
461 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
462 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
463 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
464 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
465 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
466 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
467 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
468 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
470 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
471 Source field descriptions.
472 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
473 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
474 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
475 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
476 description says otherwise.
478 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
480 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
484 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
487 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
488 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
491 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
495 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
500 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
501 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
505 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
506 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
507 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
508 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
512 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
513 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
514 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
515 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
516 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
518 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
519 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
523 * Add myself to Uploaders.
526 * Add myself to Uploaders.
527 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
529 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
530 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
531 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
533 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
535 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
538 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
543 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
545 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
547 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
548 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
552 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
553 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
555 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
557 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
570 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
572 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
575 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
577 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
578 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
579 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
582 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
583 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
587 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
588 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
591 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
593 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
594 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
595 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
596 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
597 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
598 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
599 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
600 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
601 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
602 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
603 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
604 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
605 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
606 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
607 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
608 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
609 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
610 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
611 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
612 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
613 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
614 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
615 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
616 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
617 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
618 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
619 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
620 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
621 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
622 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
624 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
625 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
626 links was completed long ago.
627 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
629 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
631 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
634 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
636 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
638 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
641 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
642 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
643 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
644 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
645 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
646 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
647 Millan (Closes: #209008).
648 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
649 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
651 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
653 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
655 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
656 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
657 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
658 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
659 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
660 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
661 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
663 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
664 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
665 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
666 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
668 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
669 Küster (Closes: #403391).
670 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
671 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
672 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
673 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
674 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
675 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
679 Closes: #186700, #458910
680 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
681 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
684 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
685 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
686 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
687 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
688 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
689 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
690 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
691 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
693 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
694 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
696 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
697 * Add an md5sums control file.
698 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
699 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
700 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
701 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
702 currently part of policy.
703 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
704 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
705 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
708 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
710 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
713 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
714 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
715 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
716 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
717 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
718 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
719 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
720 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
721 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
722 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
723 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
724 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
725 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
726 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
727 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
729 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
731 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
732 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
733 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
735 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
736 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
737 list?" (Closes: #412634).
738 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
739 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
740 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
741 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
742 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
743 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
744 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
745 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
746 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
747 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
748 debconf specification.
749 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
750 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
752 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
754 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
757 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
758 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
759 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
760 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
765 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
766 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
767 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
768 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
770 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
771 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
772 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
773 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
774 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
775 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
776 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
777 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
778 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
779 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
780 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
781 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
782 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
783 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
784 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
785 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
787 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
789 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
790 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
791 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
792 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
793 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
794 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
795 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
796 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
798 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
800 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
803 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
804 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
806 Polo (Closes: #372497).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
808 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
811 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
812 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
813 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
814 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
815 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
817 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
818 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
819 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
821 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
822 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
823 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
824 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
825 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
826 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
830 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
833 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
834 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
835 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
837 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
838 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
840 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
842 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
845 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
846 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
847 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
848 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
849 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
850 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
851 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
852 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
853 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
855 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
856 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
858 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
859 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
860 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
862 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
863 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
864 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
865 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
868 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
870 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
873 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
875 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
876 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
877 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
878 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
879 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
880 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
881 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
882 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
883 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
884 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
885 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
886 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
887 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
888 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
889 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
890 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
891 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
893 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
894 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
895 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
896 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
897 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
898 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
899 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
901 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
902 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
903 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
904 Hess (Closes: #362247).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
906 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
907 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
908 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
909 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
910 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
911 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
912 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
913 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
914 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
915 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
916 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
919 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
921 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
922 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
923 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
924 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
925 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
926 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
927 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
928 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
929 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
930 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
931 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
933 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
935 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
939 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
941 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
943 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
944 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
945 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
947 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
948 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
949 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
953 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
955 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
956 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
958 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
959 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
960 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
962 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
964 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
965 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
966 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
967 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
968 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
970 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
973 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
975 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
978 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
979 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
980 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
982 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
983 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
984 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
985 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
987 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
989 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
993 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
994 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
995 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
996 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
998 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
999 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1000 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1001 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1004 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1005 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1008 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1009 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1011 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1012 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1013 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1015 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1016 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1017 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1018 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1021 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1022 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1023 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1025 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1026 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1027 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1029 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1030 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1031 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1032 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1034 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1035 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1036 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1038 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1039 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1040 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1041 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1042 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1043 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1044 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1045 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1047 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1049 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1053 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1054 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1055 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1056 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1057 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1058 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1059 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1060 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1062 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1063 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1064 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1065 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1066 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1067 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1068 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1069 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1070 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1071 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1072 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1073 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1074 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1075 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1076 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1077 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1078 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1080 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1081 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1082 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1085 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1086 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1087 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1089 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1090 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1091 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1092 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1093 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1094 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1096 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1097 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1099 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1100 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1101 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1102 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1103 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1104 Closes: #185943, #237049
1106 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1108 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1114 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1115 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1116 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1117 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1118 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1119 running. closes: Bug#187250
1120 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1121 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1122 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1123 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1124 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1125 user closes: Bug#176506
1127 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1129 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1133 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1134 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1135 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1136 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1137 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1138 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1139 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1140 deb-building toolchain.
1141 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1142 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1143 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1144 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1145 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1146 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1147 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1148 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1149 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1150 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1151 sections about changelog files.
1153 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1154 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1155 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1156 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1157 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1158 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1160 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1161 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1162 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1163 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1164 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1165 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1166 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1167 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1168 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1169 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1170 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1171 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1172 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1173 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1174 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1175 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1176 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1177 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1178 for the restructuring
1180 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1182 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1187 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1188 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1189 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1190 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1191 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1192 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1194 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1195 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1196 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1197 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1198 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1199 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1200 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1202 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1203 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1204 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1205 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1207 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1209 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1213 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1214 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1215 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1216 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1217 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1219 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1220 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1221 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1222 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1224 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1225 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1226 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1227 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1228 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1229 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1230 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1231 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1232 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1233 offtopic stuff, too.
1234 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1235 script should start it, closes: #60979
1236 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1237 "should", closes: #170019
1238 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1239 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1240 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1241 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1242 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1243 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1244 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1245 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1248 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1250 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1254 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1255 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1256 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1257 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1258 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1259 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1260 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1261 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1263 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1264 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1265 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1266 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1267 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1268 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1269 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1270 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1271 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1273 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1274 file, closes: Bug#65764
1276 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1278 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1281 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1282 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1283 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1284 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1285 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1286 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1287 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1288 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1289 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1290 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1291 details. closes: Bug#133030
1292 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1293 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1294 parts of Bug#161455.
1296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1298 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1301 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1302 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1303 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1304 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1305 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1306 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1307 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1308 not. closes: Bug#139820
1309 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1310 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1311 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1312 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1313 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1314 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1315 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1316 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1317 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1318 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1320 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1322 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1323 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1324 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1325 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1326 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1327 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1328 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1329 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1330 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1331 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1332 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1333 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1334 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1335 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1336 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1337 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1338 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1339 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1340 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1341 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1343 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1344 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1345 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1346 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1347 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1348 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1349 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1351 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1352 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1353 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1354 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1355 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1356 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1357 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1358 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1359 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1361 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1363 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1366 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1367 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1368 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1369 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1370 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1371 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1372 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1373 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1374 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1375 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1376 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1377 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1378 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1379 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1380 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1381 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1382 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1383 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1384 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1385 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1386 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1387 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1389 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1391 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1394 medium, high, emergency.
1395 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1396 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1397 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1398 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1399 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1402 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1403 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1404 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1406 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1407 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1408 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1409 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1410 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1411 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1412 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1417 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1420 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1421 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1422 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1424 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1425 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1426 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1427 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1428 debian/rules to do this
1429 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1430 patches are incorporated upstream
1431 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1432 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1433 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1434 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1435 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1436 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1438 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1439 system closes: Bug#91249
1440 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1441 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1442 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1443 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1444 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1445 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1446 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1447 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1448 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1449 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1450 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1451 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1452 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1454 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1456 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1459 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1460 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1461 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1463 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1464 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1465 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1467 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1472 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1475 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1476 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1477 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1478 package for the time being
1479 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1480 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1481 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1482 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1483 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1484 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1485 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1486 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1487 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1488 Build-Depends arch syntax
1489 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1491 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1492 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1494 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1495 from policy maintenance duties.
1496 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1497 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1499 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1501 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1505 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1507 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1510 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1511 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1512 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1513 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1514 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1515 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1516 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1517 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1518 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1519 minor version number for this
1520 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1521 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1522 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1523 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1524 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1525 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1526 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1527 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1528 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1530 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1532 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1535 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1536 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1537 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1538 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1540 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1542 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1543 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1544 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1545 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1546 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1547 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1548 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1549 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1550 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1551 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1552 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1553 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1554 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1555 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1556 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1557 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1560 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1562 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1565 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1567 * Document the Enhances relationship
1568 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1569 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1570 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1571 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1572 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1573 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1575 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1577 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1578 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1579 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1580 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1582 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1583 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1584 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1585 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1586 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1588 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1590 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1593 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1594 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1596 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1597 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1598 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1599 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1600 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1601 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1602 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1603 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1604 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1606 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1610 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1613 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1614 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1615 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1616 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1617 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1618 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1619 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1620 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1621 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1622 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1623 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1624 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1625 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1626 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1627 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1628 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1629 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1630 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1631 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1632 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1633 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1635 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1636 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1640 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1643 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1644 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1645 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1646 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1647 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1648 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1649 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1650 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1651 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1652 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1653 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1654 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1655 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1656 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1657 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1658 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1659 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1660 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1661 list closes: Bug#53756
1662 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1663 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1664 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1665 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1666 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1667 policy closes: Bug#53760
1668 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1669 policy closes: Bug#53761
1670 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1671 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1672 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1673 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1674 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1675 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1676 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1677 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1678 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1679 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1680 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1682 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1683 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1684 to install with older fileutils.
1685 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1686 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1687 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1688 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1690 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1691 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1695 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1698 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1702 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1705 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1707 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1710 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1713 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1715 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1717 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1719 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1722 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1724 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1726 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1729 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1730 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1731 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1732 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1733 directoried (closes: #41547)
1734 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1735 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1736 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1737 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1738 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1739 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1740 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1741 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1742 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1743 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1744 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1746 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1747 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1748 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1749 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1750 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1751 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1752 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1754 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1755 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1756 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1757 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1759 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1761 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1763 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1764 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1766 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1768 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1771 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1773 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1775 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1778 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1780 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1781 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1782 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1783 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1784 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1785 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1786 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1787 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1788 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1789 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1790 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1791 this closes: Bug#38612
1792 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1793 before. closes: Bug#40864
1795 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1797 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1800 officially uploaded.
1801 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1803 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1804 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1805 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1807 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1808 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1809 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1810 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1811 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1812 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1814 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1815 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1816 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1818 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1820 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1821 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1822 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1823 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1824 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1826 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1828 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1831 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1832 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1833 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1834 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1835 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1836 there). closes: Bug#34233
1837 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1838 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1839 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1840 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1841 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1843 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1845 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1848 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1849 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1850 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1853 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1854 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1855 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1856 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1857 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1860 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1861 number. closes: BUG#25911
1863 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1864 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1865 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1866 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1867 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1868 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1870 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1871 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1872 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1875 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1876 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1877 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1879 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1880 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1881 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1882 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1884 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1885 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1886 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1888 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1890 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1891 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1892 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1893 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1894 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1895 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1896 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1897 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1900 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1902 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1903 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1906 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1908 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1912 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1914 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1917 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1918 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1919 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1920 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1921 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1922 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1923 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1925 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1926 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1928 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1930 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1932 * non-maintainer release
1933 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1934 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1936 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1937 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1938 * no content changes
1939 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1941 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1943 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1947 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1949 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1953 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1954 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1955 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1957 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1958 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1960 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1961 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1962 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1963 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1965 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1966 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1967 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1968 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1969 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1970 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1971 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1973 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1974 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1975 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1978 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1979 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1980 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1982 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1983 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1984 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1986 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1987 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1989 * New version numbering scheme:
1991 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1992 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1993 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1996 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1997 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1998 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1999 differ between the manuals.
2001 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2002 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2003 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2004 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2006 * Packaging changes:
2008 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2009 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2011 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2013 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2015 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2019 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2020 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2021 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2023 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2024 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2027 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2028 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2029 file extension as the referenced file
2031 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2032 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2034 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2035 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2036 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2037 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2040 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2041 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2042 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2044 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2045 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2046 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2047 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2050 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2051 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2054 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2055 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2056 reasonable default configuration
2058 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2059 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2060 by all news servers and clients
2062 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2063 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2064 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2065 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2066 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2068 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2069 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2072 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2074 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2075 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2077 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2080 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2081 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2083 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2084 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2086 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2088 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2090 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2093 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2094 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2095 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2097 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2099 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2100 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2101 * Don't use debstd anymore
2103 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2105 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2108 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2109 contrib/non-free policy
2110 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2111 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2112 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2113 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2114 - new section about `Daemons'
2115 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2116 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2117 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2118 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2119 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2120 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2121 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2122 * SGML source code included in package
2123 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2125 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2127 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2130 - completely reworked structure
2131 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2132 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2133 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2134 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2135 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2136 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2137 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2138 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2139 - mention "orphaned packages"
2140 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2141 distributions' policy
2142 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2143 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2144 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2145 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2146 - added section about arch spec strings
2147 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2148 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2149 - added section about "menus"
2150 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2151 the new documentation policy soon
2152 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2153 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2155 - added section about editors and pagers
2156 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2157 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2158 - added section about device files
2159 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2160 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2161 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2163 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2164 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2165 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2166 - Added new section about obsolete names
2167 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2168 * Fixed package's description
2170 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2172 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2176 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2178 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2181 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2182 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2183 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2185 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2187 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2190 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2191 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2193 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2194 and upload it "byhand" too.
2196 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2198 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2202 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2203 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2204 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2205 functionality must not have the same name.
2206 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2207 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2208 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2209 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2210 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2211 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2212 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2214 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2215 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2216 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2217 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2218 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2219 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2220 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2221 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2224 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2226 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2228 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2230 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2231 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2232 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2233 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2234 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2237 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2239 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2241 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2243 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2244 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2245 description of deb file format.
2246 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2247 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2249 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2251 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2252 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2254 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2256 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2258 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2259 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2260 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2261 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2262 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2263 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2264 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2265 packages in section on Procedure
2266 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2267 a package maintainer
2268 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2269 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2270 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2272 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2273 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2274 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2275 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2276 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2277 on various shlib files
2278 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2279 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2280 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2282 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2284 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2286 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2287 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2288 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2290 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2291 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2292 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2293 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2294 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2296 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2298 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2300 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2302 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2304 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2305 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2306 compatibility go in contrib.
2308 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2309 instructions in policy manual.
2310 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2313 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2315 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2317 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2318 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2319 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2320 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2322 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2323 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2326 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2328 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2330 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2331 * More detail about changelog format names.
2333 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2334 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2338 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2340 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2342 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2344 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2346 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2348 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2350 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2352 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2353 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2354 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2356 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2358 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2360 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2362 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2364 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2368 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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