1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
20 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
21 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
25 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
26 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
27 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
28 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
29 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
31 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
33 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
35 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
36 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
37 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
39 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
40 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
41 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
42 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
47 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
48 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
53 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
57 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
58 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
59 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
60 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
65 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
72 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
76 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
77 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
80 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
81 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
88 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
91 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
92 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
93 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
94 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
96 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
97 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
98 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
99 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
100 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
101 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
102 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
103 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
104 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
105 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
106 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
107 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
108 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
109 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
110 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
111 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
112 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
114 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
115 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
116 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
117 good to know which version one is looking at.
118 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
119 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
120 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
121 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
122 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
123 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
124 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
126 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
127 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
128 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
129 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
130 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
132 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
133 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
134 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
136 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
137 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
138 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
139 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
141 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
143 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
147 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
148 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
149 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
150 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
151 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
152 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
153 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
154 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
155 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
156 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
161 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
162 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
167 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
168 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
172 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
174 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
175 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
179 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
183 Closes: #620870, #532120
184 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
185 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
190 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
191 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
192 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
196 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
197 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
198 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
199 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
200 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
202 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
203 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
204 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
205 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
206 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
207 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
208 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
209 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
210 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
211 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
212 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
213 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
214 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
215 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
216 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
217 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
219 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
221 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
222 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
223 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
224 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
225 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
226 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
227 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
228 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
229 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
230 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
233 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
235 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
236 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
237 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
243 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
244 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
246 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
247 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
248 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
249 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
254 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
258 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
259 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
260 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
263 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
264 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
265 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
267 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
268 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
274 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
275 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
276 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
279 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
280 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
285 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
286 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
287 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
288 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
291 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
292 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
293 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
296 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
297 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
302 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
304 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
310 Closes: #459868, #581011
311 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
314 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
317 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
322 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
324 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
332 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
335 Closes: #501930, #593909
336 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
341 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
342 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
343 machine. (Closes: #591857)
344 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
345 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
346 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
347 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
348 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
349 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
350 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
351 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
352 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
353 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
355 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
356 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
357 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
358 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
359 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
360 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
361 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
362 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
363 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
364 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
365 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
366 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
367 than the version in oldstable.
368 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
369 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
370 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
371 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
372 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
373 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
374 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
375 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
376 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
377 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
378 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
379 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
380 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
381 package. (Closes: #609160)
383 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
385 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
388 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
393 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
394 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
398 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
408 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
413 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
414 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
419 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
423 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
424 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
426 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
428 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
431 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
433 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
439 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
445 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
446 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
450 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
451 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
460 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
461 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
465 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
466 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
470 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
471 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
475 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
477 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
478 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
479 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
480 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
481 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
482 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
483 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
484 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
485 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
487 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
488 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
489 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
490 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
491 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
492 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
494 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
496 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
502 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
505 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
506 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
507 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
508 and distribution license' (three times).
509 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
510 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
515 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
517 Proposed by Santiago Vila
518 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
525 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
526 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
531 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
532 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
535 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
537 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
538 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
542 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
543 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
546 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
548 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
549 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
552 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
554 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
555 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
556 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
558 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
562 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
572 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
576 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
581 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
587 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
588 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
589 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
592 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
593 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
598 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
599 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
603 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
604 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
605 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
606 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
607 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
608 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
609 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
610 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
611 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
612 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
613 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
614 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
615 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
616 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
617 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
618 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
619 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
620 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
621 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
622 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
623 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
624 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
625 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
626 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
627 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
628 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
629 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
630 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
631 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
632 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
633 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
634 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
636 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
638 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
640 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
644 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
646 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
647 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
651 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
654 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
655 Wording: Steve Langasek.
656 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
657 Seconded: Julien Cristau
658 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
661 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
662 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
663 Seconded: Russ Allbery
664 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
667 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
668 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
669 Seconded: Russ Allbery
671 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
672 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
673 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
674 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
675 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
676 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
677 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
678 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
681 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
682 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
683 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
684 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
685 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
686 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
687 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
689 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
690 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
691 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
692 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
693 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
694 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
695 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
698 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
699 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
700 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
701 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
702 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
704 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
707 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
711 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
712 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
715 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
717 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
720 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
724 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
725 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
729 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
730 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
734 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
735 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
738 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
739 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
741 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
742 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
747 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
748 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
752 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
753 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
757 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
758 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
762 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
763 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
767 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
768 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
772 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
773 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
774 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
775 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
776 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
777 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
778 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
779 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
780 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
781 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
782 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
783 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
784 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
785 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
786 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
788 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
789 Source field descriptions.
790 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
791 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
792 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
793 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
794 description says otherwise.
796 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
798 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
802 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
805 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
806 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
808 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
809 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
813 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
814 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
818 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
819 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
823 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
824 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
825 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
826 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
830 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
831 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
832 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
833 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
834 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
836 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
837 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
841 * Add myself to Uploaders.
844 * Add myself to Uploaders.
845 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
847 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
848 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
849 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
851 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
853 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
856 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
857 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
858 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
860 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
861 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
863 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
865 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
866 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
867 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
870 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
871 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
873 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
875 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
876 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
880 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
881 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
885 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
886 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
888 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
890 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
891 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
893 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
895 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
896 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
897 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
900 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
901 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
905 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
906 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
909 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
911 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
912 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
913 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
914 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
915 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
916 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
917 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
918 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
919 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
920 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
921 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
922 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
923 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
924 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
925 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
926 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
927 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
928 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
929 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
930 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
931 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
932 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
933 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
934 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
935 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
936 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
937 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
938 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
939 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
940 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
942 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
943 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
944 links was completed long ago.
945 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
947 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
949 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
952 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
954 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
956 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
959 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
960 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
961 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
962 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
963 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
964 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
965 Millan (Closes: #209008).
966 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
967 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
969 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
971 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
973 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
974 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
975 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
976 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
977 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
978 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
979 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
981 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
982 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
983 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
984 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
986 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
987 Küster (Closes: #403391).
988 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
989 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
990 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
991 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
992 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
993 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
995 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
996 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
997 Closes: #186700, #458910
998 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
999 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1000 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1002 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1003 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1004 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1005 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1006 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1007 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1008 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1009 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1011 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1012 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1014 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1015 * Add an md5sums control file.
1016 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1017 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1018 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1019 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1020 currently part of policy.
1021 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1022 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1023 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1026 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1028 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1031 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1032 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1033 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1034 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1035 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1036 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1037 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1038 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1039 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1041 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1042 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1043 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1044 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1045 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1047 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1049 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1050 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1051 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1053 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1054 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1055 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1056 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1057 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1058 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1059 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1060 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1061 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1062 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1063 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1064 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1065 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1066 debconf specification.
1067 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1068 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1070 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1072 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1075 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1077 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1078 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1080 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1083 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1084 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1085 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1086 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1088 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1089 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1090 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1091 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1092 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1093 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1094 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1095 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1096 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1097 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1098 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1099 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1100 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1101 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1102 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1108 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1109 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1110 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1112 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1113 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1114 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1118 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1121 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1122 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1124 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1126 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1129 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1130 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1131 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1133 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1135 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1137 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1139 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1140 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1141 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1142 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1143 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1144 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1146 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1148 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1151 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1152 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1153 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1156 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1158 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1160 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1163 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1164 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1165 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1166 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1167 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1168 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1169 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1170 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1171 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1173 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1174 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1176 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1177 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1178 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1180 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1182 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1183 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1186 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1188 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1191 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1193 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1194 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1195 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1196 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1197 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1198 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1199 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1200 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1201 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1202 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1203 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1204 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1205 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1206 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1207 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1208 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1209 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1210 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1211 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1212 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1213 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1214 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1215 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1216 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1217 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1219 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1220 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1221 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1222 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1224 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1225 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1226 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1227 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1228 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1229 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1230 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1231 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1232 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1233 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1234 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1237 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1240 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1242 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1243 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1244 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1245 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1246 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1247 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1248 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1249 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1251 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1253 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1257 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1259 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1261 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1262 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1263 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1265 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1266 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1267 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1271 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1273 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1274 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1276 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1278 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1280 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1282 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1284 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1285 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1286 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1288 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1293 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1296 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1297 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1298 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1300 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1301 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1303 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1305 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1307 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1311 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1312 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1313 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1314 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1316 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1317 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1318 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1319 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1322 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1323 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1326 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1327 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1329 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1330 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1331 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1333 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1334 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1335 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1336 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1339 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1340 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1341 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1342 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1343 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1344 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1345 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1348 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1349 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1350 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1352 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1353 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1354 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1356 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1357 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1358 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1359 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1360 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1361 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1362 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1363 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1365 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1367 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1371 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1372 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1373 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1374 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1375 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1376 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1377 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1378 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1380 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1381 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1382 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1383 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1384 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1385 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1386 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1387 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1388 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1389 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1390 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1391 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1393 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1394 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1395 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1399 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1400 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1403 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1404 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1405 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1407 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1408 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1409 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1410 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1411 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1412 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1414 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1415 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1417 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1418 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1419 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1420 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1421 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1422 Closes: #185943, #237049
1424 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1426 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1432 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1433 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1434 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1435 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1436 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1437 running. closes: Bug#187250
1438 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1439 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1440 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1441 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1442 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1443 user closes: Bug#176506
1445 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1447 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1451 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1452 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1453 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1454 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1455 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1456 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1457 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1458 deb-building toolchain.
1459 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1460 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1461 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1462 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1463 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1464 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1465 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1466 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1467 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1468 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1469 sections about changelog files.
1471 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1472 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1473 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1474 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1475 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1476 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1478 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1479 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1480 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1481 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1482 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1483 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1484 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1485 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1486 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1487 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1488 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1489 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1490 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1491 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1492 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1493 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1494 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1495 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1496 for the restructuring
1498 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1500 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1505 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1506 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1507 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1508 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1509 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1510 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1512 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1513 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1514 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1515 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1516 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1517 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1518 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1520 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1521 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1522 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1523 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1525 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1527 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1531 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1532 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1533 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1534 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1535 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1537 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1538 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1539 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1540 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1542 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1543 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1544 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1545 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1546 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1547 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1548 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1549 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1550 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1551 offtopic stuff, too.
1552 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1553 script should start it, closes: #60979
1554 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1555 "should", closes: #170019
1556 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1557 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1558 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1559 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1560 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1561 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1562 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1563 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1566 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1568 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1572 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1573 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1574 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1575 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1576 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1577 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1578 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1579 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1581 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1582 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1583 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1584 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1585 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1586 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1587 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1588 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1589 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1591 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1592 file, closes: Bug#65764
1594 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1596 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1599 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1600 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1601 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1602 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1603 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1604 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1605 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1606 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1607 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1608 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1609 details. closes: Bug#133030
1610 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1611 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1612 parts of Bug#161455.
1614 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1616 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1619 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1620 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1621 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1622 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1623 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1624 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1625 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1626 not. closes: Bug#139820
1627 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1628 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1629 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1630 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1631 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1632 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1633 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1634 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1635 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1636 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1638 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1640 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1641 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1642 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1643 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1644 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1645 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1646 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1647 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1648 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1649 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1650 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1651 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1652 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1653 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1654 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1655 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1656 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1657 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1658 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1659 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1661 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1662 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1663 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1664 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1665 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1666 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1667 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1669 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1670 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1671 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1672 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1673 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1674 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1675 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1676 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1677 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1679 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1681 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1684 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1685 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1686 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1687 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1688 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1689 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1690 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1691 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1692 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1693 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1694 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1695 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1696 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1697 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1698 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1699 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1700 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1701 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1702 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1703 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1704 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1705 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1707 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1709 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1712 medium, high, emergency.
1713 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1714 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1715 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1716 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1717 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1720 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1721 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1722 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1724 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1725 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1726 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1727 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1728 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1729 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1730 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1733 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1735 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1738 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1739 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1740 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1742 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1743 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1744 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1745 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1746 debian/rules to do this
1747 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1748 patches are incorporated upstream
1749 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1750 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1751 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1752 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1753 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1754 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1756 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1757 system closes: Bug#91249
1758 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1759 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1760 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1761 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1762 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1763 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1764 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1765 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1766 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1767 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1768 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1769 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1770 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1772 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1774 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1777 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1778 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1779 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1781 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1782 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1783 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1785 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1790 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1793 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1794 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1795 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1796 package for the time being
1797 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1798 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1799 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1800 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1801 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1802 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1803 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1804 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1805 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1806 Build-Depends arch syntax
1807 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1809 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1810 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1812 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1813 from policy maintenance duties.
1814 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1815 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1817 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1819 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1823 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1825 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1828 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1829 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1830 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1831 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1832 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1833 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1834 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1835 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1836 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1837 minor version number for this
1838 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1839 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1840 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1841 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1842 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1843 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1844 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1845 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1846 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1848 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1850 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1853 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1854 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1855 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1856 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1858 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1860 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1861 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1862 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1863 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1864 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1865 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1866 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1867 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1868 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1869 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1870 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1871 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1872 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1873 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1874 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1875 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1878 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1880 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1883 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1885 * Document the Enhances relationship
1886 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1887 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1888 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1889 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1890 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1891 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1893 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1895 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1896 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1897 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1898 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1900 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1901 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1902 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1903 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1904 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1906 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1908 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1911 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1912 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1914 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1915 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1916 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1917 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1918 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1919 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1920 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1921 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1922 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1924 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1926 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1928 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1931 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1932 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1933 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1934 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1935 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1936 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1937 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1938 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1939 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1940 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1941 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1942 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1943 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1944 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1945 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1946 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1947 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1948 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1949 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1950 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1951 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1953 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1954 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1956 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1958 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1961 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1962 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1963 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1964 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1965 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1966 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1967 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1968 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1969 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1970 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1971 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1972 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1973 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1974 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1975 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1976 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1977 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1978 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1979 list closes: Bug#53756
1980 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1981 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1982 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1983 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1984 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1985 policy closes: Bug#53760
1986 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1987 policy closes: Bug#53761
1988 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1989 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1990 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1991 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1992 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1993 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1994 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1995 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1996 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1997 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1998 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2000 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2001 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2002 to install with older fileutils.
2003 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2004 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2005 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2006 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2008 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2009 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2011 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2013 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2016 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2018 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2020 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2023 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2025 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2028 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2031 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2033 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2035 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2037 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2040 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2042 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2044 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2047 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2048 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2049 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2050 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2051 directoried (closes: #41547)
2052 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2053 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2054 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2055 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2056 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2057 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2058 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2059 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2060 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2061 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2062 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2064 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2065 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2066 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2067 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2068 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2069 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2070 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2072 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2073 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2074 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2075 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2077 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2079 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2081 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2082 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2084 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2086 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2089 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2091 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2093 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2096 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2098 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2099 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2100 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2101 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2102 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2103 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2104 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2105 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2106 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2107 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2108 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2109 this closes: Bug#38612
2110 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2111 before. closes: Bug#40864
2113 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2115 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2118 officially uploaded.
2119 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2121 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2122 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2123 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2125 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2126 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2127 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2128 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2129 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2130 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2132 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2133 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2134 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2136 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2138 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2139 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2140 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2141 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2142 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2144 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2146 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2149 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2150 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2151 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2152 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2153 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2154 there). closes: Bug#34233
2155 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2156 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2157 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2158 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2159 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2161 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2163 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2166 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2167 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2168 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2171 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2172 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2173 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2174 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2175 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2178 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2179 number. closes: BUG#25911
2181 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2182 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2183 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2184 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2185 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2186 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2188 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2189 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2190 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2193 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2194 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2195 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2197 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2198 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2199 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2200 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2202 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2203 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2204 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2206 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2208 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2209 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2210 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2211 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2212 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2213 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2214 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2215 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2218 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2220 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2221 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2224 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2226 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2230 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2232 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2235 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2236 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2237 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2238 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2239 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2240 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2241 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2243 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2244 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2246 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2248 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2250 * non-maintainer release
2251 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2252 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2254 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2255 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2256 * no content changes
2257 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2259 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2261 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2265 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2267 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2271 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2272 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2273 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2275 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2276 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2278 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2279 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2280 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2281 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2283 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2284 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2285 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2286 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2287 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2288 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2289 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2291 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2292 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2293 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2296 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2297 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2298 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2300 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2301 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2302 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2304 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2305 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2307 * New version numbering scheme:
2309 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2310 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2311 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2314 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2315 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2316 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2317 differ between the manuals.
2319 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2320 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2321 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2322 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2324 * Packaging changes:
2326 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2327 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2329 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2331 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2333 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2337 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2338 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2339 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2341 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2342 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2345 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2346 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2347 file extension as the referenced file
2349 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2350 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2352 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2353 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2354 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2355 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2358 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2359 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2360 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2362 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2363 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2364 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2365 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2368 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2369 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2372 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2373 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2374 reasonable default configuration
2376 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2377 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2378 by all news servers and clients
2380 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2381 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2382 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2383 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2384 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2386 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2387 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2390 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2392 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2393 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2395 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2398 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2399 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2401 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2402 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2404 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2406 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2408 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2411 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2412 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2413 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2415 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2417 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2418 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2419 * Don't use debstd anymore
2421 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2423 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2426 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2427 contrib/non-free policy
2428 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2429 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2430 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2431 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2432 - new section about `Daemons'
2433 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2434 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2435 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2436 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2437 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2438 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2439 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2440 * SGML source code included in package
2441 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2443 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2445 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2448 - completely reworked structure
2449 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2450 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2451 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2452 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2453 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2454 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2455 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2456 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2457 - mention "orphaned packages"
2458 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2459 distributions' policy
2460 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2461 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2462 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2463 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2464 - added section about arch spec strings
2465 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2466 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2467 - added section about "menus"
2468 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2469 the new documentation policy soon
2470 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2471 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2473 - added section about editors and pagers
2474 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2475 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2476 - added section about device files
2477 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2478 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2479 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2481 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2482 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2483 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2484 - Added new section about obsolete names
2485 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2486 * Fixed package's description
2488 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2490 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2494 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2496 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2499 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2500 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2501 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2503 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2505 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2508 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2509 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2511 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2512 and upload it "byhand" too.
2514 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2516 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2520 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2521 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2522 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2523 functionality must not have the same name.
2524 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2525 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2526 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2527 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2528 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2529 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2530 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2532 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2533 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2534 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2535 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2536 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2537 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2538 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2539 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2542 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2544 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2546 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2548 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2549 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2550 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2551 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2552 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2555 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2557 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2559 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2561 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2562 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2563 description of deb file format.
2564 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2565 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2567 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2569 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2570 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2572 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2574 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2576 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2577 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2578 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2579 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2580 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2581 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2582 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2583 packages in section on Procedure
2584 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2585 a package maintainer
2586 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2587 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2588 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2590 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2591 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2592 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2593 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2594 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2595 on various shlib files
2596 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2597 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2598 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2600 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2602 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2604 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2605 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2606 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2608 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2609 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2610 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2611 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2612 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2614 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2616 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2618 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2620 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2622 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2623 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2624 compatibility go in contrib.
2626 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2627 instructions in policy manual.
2628 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2631 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2633 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2635 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2636 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2637 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2638 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2640 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2641 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2644 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2646 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2648 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2649 * More detail about changelog format names.
2651 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2652 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2656 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2658 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2660 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2662 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2664 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2666 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2668 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2670 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2671 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2672 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2674 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2676 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2678 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2680 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2682 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2686 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100