1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
4 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
5 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
6 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
7 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
9 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
10 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
11 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
12 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
13 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
14 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
15 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
16 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
17 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
18 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
19 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
20 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
21 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
22 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
23 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
24 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
25 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
26 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
27 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
28 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
29 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
30 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
32 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
33 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
34 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
35 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
37 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
38 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
39 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
42 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
44 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
48 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
49 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
50 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
51 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
52 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
53 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
54 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
55 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
56 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
57 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
62 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
63 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
68 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
69 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
73 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
75 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
84 Closes: #620870, #532120
85 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
86 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
91 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
92 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
97 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
98 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
99 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
100 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
101 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
103 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
104 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
105 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
106 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
107 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
108 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
109 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
110 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
111 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
112 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
113 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
114 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
115 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
116 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
117 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
118 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
120 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
122 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
123 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
124 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
125 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
126 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
127 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
128 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
129 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
130 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
131 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
134 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
136 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
137 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
138 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
144 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
145 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
147 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
148 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
149 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
150 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
155 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
159 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
160 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
161 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
164 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
165 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
168 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
169 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
175 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
176 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
177 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
180 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
181 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
186 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
187 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
188 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
189 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
192 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
193 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
194 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
197 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
198 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
203 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
205 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
211 Closes: #459868, #581011
212 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
218 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
223 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
225 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
232 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
233 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
236 Closes: #501930, #593909
237 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
242 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
243 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
244 machine. (Closes: #591857)
245 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
246 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
247 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
248 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
249 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
250 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
251 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
252 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
253 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
254 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
256 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
257 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
258 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
259 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
260 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
261 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
262 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
263 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
264 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
265 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
266 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
267 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
268 than the version in oldstable.
269 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
270 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
271 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
272 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
273 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
274 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
275 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
276 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
277 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
278 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
279 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
280 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
281 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
282 package. (Closes: #609160)
284 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
286 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
294 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
304 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
305 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
309 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
319 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
327 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
332 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
334 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
340 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
346 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
351 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
352 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
356 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
357 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
361 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
362 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
366 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
367 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
371 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
372 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
376 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
378 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
379 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
380 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
381 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
382 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
383 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
384 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
385 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
386 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
388 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
389 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
390 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
391 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
392 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
393 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
395 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
397 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
403 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
406 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
407 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
408 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
409 and distribution license' (three times).
410 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
411 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
416 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
418 Proposed by Santiago Vila
419 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
431 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
432 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
436 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
439 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
443 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
447 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
450 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
453 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
459 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
463 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
477 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
482 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
483 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
484 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
488 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
489 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
493 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
494 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
499 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
500 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
504 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
505 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
506 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
507 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
508 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
509 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
510 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
511 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
512 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
513 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
514 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
515 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
516 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
517 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
518 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
519 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
520 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
521 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
522 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
523 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
524 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
525 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
526 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
527 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
528 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
529 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
530 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
531 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
532 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
533 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
534 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
535 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
537 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
539 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
541 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
545 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
547 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
548 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
552 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
555 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
556 Wording: Steve Langasek.
557 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
558 Seconded: Julien Cristau
559 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
562 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
563 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
564 Seconded: Russ Allbery
565 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
568 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
569 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
570 Seconded: Russ Allbery
572 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
573 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
574 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
575 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
576 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
577 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
578 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
579 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
582 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
583 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
584 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
585 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
586 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
587 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
588 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
590 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
591 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
592 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
593 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
594 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
595 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
596 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
599 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
600 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
601 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
602 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
603 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
605 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
608 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
609 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
612 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
613 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
616 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
618 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
625 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
626 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
630 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
631 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
635 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
636 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
639 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
640 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
642 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
648 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
654 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
658 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
659 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
663 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
664 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
668 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
669 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
673 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
674 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
675 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
676 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
677 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
678 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
679 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
680 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
681 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
682 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
683 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
684 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
685 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
686 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
687 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
689 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
690 Source field descriptions.
691 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
692 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
693 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
694 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
695 description says otherwise.
697 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
699 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
703 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
706 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
707 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
709 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
710 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
714 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
719 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
720 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
724 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
725 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
726 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
727 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
731 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
732 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
733 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
734 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
735 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
737 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
738 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
742 * Add myself to Uploaders.
745 * Add myself to Uploaders.
746 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
748 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
749 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
750 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
752 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
754 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
757 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
762 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
764 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
766 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
767 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
771 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
772 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
774 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
776 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
777 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
781 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
782 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
786 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
787 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
789 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
791 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
792 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
794 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
796 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
797 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
798 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
801 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
802 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
806 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
807 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
808 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
810 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
812 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
813 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
814 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
815 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
816 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
817 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
818 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
819 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
820 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
821 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
822 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
823 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
824 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
825 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
826 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
827 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
828 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
829 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
830 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
831 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
832 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
833 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
834 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
835 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
836 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
837 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
838 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
839 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
840 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
841 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
843 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
844 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
845 links was completed long ago.
846 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
848 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
850 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
853 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
855 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
857 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
860 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
861 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
862 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
863 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
864 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
865 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
866 Millan (Closes: #209008).
867 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
868 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
870 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
872 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
874 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
875 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
876 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
877 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
878 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
879 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
880 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
882 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
883 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
884 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
885 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
887 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
888 Küster (Closes: #403391).
889 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
890 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
891 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
892 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
893 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
894 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
898 Closes: #186700, #458910
899 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
900 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
903 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
904 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
905 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
906 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
907 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
908 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
909 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
910 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
912 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
913 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
915 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
916 * Add an md5sums control file.
917 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
918 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
919 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
920 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
921 currently part of policy.
922 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
923 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
924 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
927 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
929 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
932 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
933 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
934 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
935 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
936 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
937 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
938 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
939 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
940 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
942 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
943 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
944 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
945 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
946 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
948 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
950 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
951 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
952 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
954 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
955 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
956 list?" (Closes: #412634).
957 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
958 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
959 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
960 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
961 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
962 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
963 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
964 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
965 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
966 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
967 debconf specification.
968 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
969 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
971 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
973 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
976 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
978 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
979 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
981 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
984 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
985 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
986 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
987 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
989 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
990 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
991 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
992 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
993 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
994 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
995 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
996 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
997 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
998 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
999 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1000 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1001 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1003 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1006 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1009 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1010 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1011 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1013 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1014 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1015 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1017 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1019 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1022 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1023 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1025 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1027 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1029 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1030 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1031 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1032 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1034 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1035 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1036 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1038 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1040 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1041 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1042 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1043 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1044 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1045 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1047 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1049 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1052 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1053 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1054 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1057 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1061 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1064 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1065 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1066 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1067 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1068 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1069 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1070 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1071 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1072 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1074 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1075 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1077 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1078 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1079 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1080 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1081 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1083 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1084 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1087 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1089 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1092 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1093 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1094 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1095 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1096 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1097 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1098 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1099 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1100 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1101 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1102 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1103 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1104 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1105 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1106 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1107 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1108 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1109 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1110 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1112 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1113 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1114 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1115 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1116 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1117 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1118 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1120 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1121 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1122 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1123 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1125 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1126 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1127 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1128 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1129 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1130 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1131 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1132 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1133 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1134 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1135 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1138 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1141 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1143 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1144 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1145 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1146 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1147 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1148 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1149 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1150 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1152 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1154 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1158 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1160 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1162 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1163 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1164 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1165 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1166 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1167 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1168 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1172 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1174 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1175 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1177 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1179 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1181 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1183 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1185 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1186 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1187 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1189 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1192 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1194 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1197 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1198 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1199 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1201 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1202 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1203 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1204 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1206 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1208 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1212 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1213 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1214 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1215 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1217 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1218 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1219 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1220 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1223 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1224 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1226 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1227 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1228 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1230 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1231 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1232 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1234 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1235 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1236 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1237 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1240 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1241 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1242 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1244 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1245 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1246 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1249 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1250 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1251 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1253 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1254 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1255 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1256 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1257 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1258 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1259 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1260 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1261 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1262 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1263 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1264 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1266 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1268 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1272 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1273 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1274 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1275 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1276 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1277 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1278 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1279 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1281 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1282 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1283 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1284 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1285 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1286 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1287 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1288 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1289 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1290 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1291 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1292 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1294 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1295 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1296 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1300 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1301 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1304 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1305 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1306 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1308 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1309 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1310 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1311 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1312 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1313 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1315 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1316 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1318 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1319 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1320 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1321 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1322 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1323 Closes: #185943, #237049
1325 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1327 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1333 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1334 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1335 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1336 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1337 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1338 running. closes: Bug#187250
1339 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1340 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1341 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1342 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1343 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1344 user closes: Bug#176506
1346 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1348 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1352 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1353 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1354 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1355 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1356 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1357 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1358 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1359 deb-building toolchain.
1360 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1361 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1362 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1363 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1364 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1365 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1366 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1367 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1368 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1369 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1370 sections about changelog files.
1372 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1373 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1374 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1375 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1376 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1377 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1379 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1380 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1381 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1382 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1383 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1384 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1385 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1386 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1387 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1388 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1389 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1390 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1391 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1392 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1393 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1394 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1395 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1396 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1397 for the restructuring
1399 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1401 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1406 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1407 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1408 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1409 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1410 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1411 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1413 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1414 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1415 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1416 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1417 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1418 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1419 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1421 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1422 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1423 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1424 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1426 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1428 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1432 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1433 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1434 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1435 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1436 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1438 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1439 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1440 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1441 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1443 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1444 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1445 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1446 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1447 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1448 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1449 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1450 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1451 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1452 offtopic stuff, too.
1453 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1454 script should start it, closes: #60979
1455 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1456 "should", closes: #170019
1457 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1458 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1459 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1460 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1461 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1462 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1463 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1464 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1467 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1469 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1473 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1474 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1475 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1476 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1477 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1478 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1479 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1480 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1482 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1483 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1484 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1485 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1486 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1487 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1488 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1489 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1490 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1492 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1493 file, closes: Bug#65764
1495 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1497 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1500 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1501 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1502 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1503 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1504 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1505 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1506 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1507 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1508 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1509 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1510 details. closes: Bug#133030
1511 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1512 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1513 parts of Bug#161455.
1515 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1517 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1520 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1521 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1522 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1523 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1524 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1525 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1526 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1527 not. closes: Bug#139820
1528 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1529 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1530 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1531 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1532 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1533 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1534 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1535 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1536 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1537 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1539 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1541 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1542 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1543 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1544 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1545 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1546 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1547 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1548 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1549 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1550 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1551 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1552 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1553 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1554 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1555 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1556 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1557 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1558 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1559 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1560 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1562 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1563 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1564 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1565 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1566 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1567 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1568 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1570 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1571 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1572 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1573 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1574 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1575 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1576 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1577 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1578 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1580 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1582 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1585 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1586 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1587 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1588 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1589 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1590 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1591 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1592 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1593 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1594 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1595 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1596 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1597 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1598 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1599 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1600 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1601 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1602 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1603 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1604 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1605 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1606 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1610 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1613 medium, high, emergency.
1614 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1615 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1616 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1617 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1618 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1621 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1622 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1623 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1625 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1626 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1627 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1628 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1629 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1630 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1631 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1634 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1636 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1639 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1640 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1641 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1643 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1644 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1645 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1646 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1647 debian/rules to do this
1648 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1649 patches are incorporated upstream
1650 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1651 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1652 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1653 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1654 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1655 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1657 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1658 system closes: Bug#91249
1659 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1660 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1661 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1662 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1663 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1664 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1665 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1666 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1667 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1668 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1669 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1670 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1671 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1673 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1675 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1678 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1679 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1680 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1682 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1683 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1684 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1686 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1689 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1691 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1694 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1695 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1696 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1697 package for the time being
1698 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1699 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1700 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1701 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1702 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1703 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1704 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1705 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1706 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1707 Build-Depends arch syntax
1708 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1710 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1711 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1713 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1714 from policy maintenance duties.
1715 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1716 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1718 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1720 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1724 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1726 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1729 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1730 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1731 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1732 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1733 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1734 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1735 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1736 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1737 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1738 minor version number for this
1739 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1740 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1741 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1742 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1743 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1744 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1745 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1746 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1747 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1749 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1751 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1754 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1755 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1756 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1757 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1759 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1761 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1762 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1763 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1764 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1765 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1766 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1767 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1768 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1769 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1770 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1771 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1772 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1773 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1774 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1775 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1776 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1779 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1781 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1784 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1786 * Document the Enhances relationship
1787 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1788 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1789 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1790 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1791 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1792 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1794 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1796 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1797 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1798 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1799 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1801 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1802 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1803 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1804 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1805 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1807 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1809 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1812 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1813 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1815 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1816 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1817 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1818 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1819 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1820 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1821 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1822 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1823 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1825 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1827 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1829 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1832 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1833 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1834 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1835 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1836 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1837 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1838 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1839 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1840 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1841 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1842 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1843 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1844 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1845 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1846 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1847 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1848 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1849 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1850 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1851 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1852 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1854 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1855 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1859 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1862 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1863 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1864 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1865 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1866 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1867 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1868 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1869 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1870 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1871 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1872 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1873 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1874 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1875 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1876 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1877 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1878 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1879 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1880 list closes: Bug#53756
1881 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1882 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1883 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1884 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1885 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1886 policy closes: Bug#53760
1887 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1888 policy closes: Bug#53761
1889 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1890 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1891 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1892 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1893 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1894 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1895 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1896 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1897 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1898 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1899 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1901 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1902 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1903 to install with older fileutils.
1904 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1905 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1906 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1907 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1909 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1910 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1914 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1917 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1921 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1924 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1926 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1929 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1932 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1934 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1936 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1938 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1941 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1943 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1945 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1948 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1949 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1950 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1951 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1952 directoried (closes: #41547)
1953 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1954 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1955 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1956 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1957 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1958 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1959 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1960 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1961 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1962 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1963 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1965 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1966 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1967 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1968 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1969 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1970 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1971 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1973 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1974 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1975 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1976 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1978 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1980 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1982 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1983 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1985 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1987 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1990 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1992 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1994 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1997 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1999 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2000 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2001 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2002 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2003 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2004 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2005 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2006 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2007 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2008 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2009 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2010 this closes: Bug#38612
2011 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2012 before. closes: Bug#40864
2014 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2016 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2019 officially uploaded.
2020 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2022 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2023 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2024 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2026 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2027 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2028 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2029 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2030 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2031 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2033 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2034 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2035 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2037 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2039 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2040 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2041 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2042 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2043 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2045 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2047 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2050 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2051 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2052 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2053 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2054 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2055 there). closes: Bug#34233
2056 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2057 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2058 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2059 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2060 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2062 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2064 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2067 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2068 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2069 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2072 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2073 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2074 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2075 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2076 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2079 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2080 number. closes: BUG#25911
2082 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2083 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2084 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2085 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2086 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2087 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2089 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2090 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2091 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2094 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2095 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2096 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2098 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2099 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2100 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2101 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2103 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2104 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2105 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2107 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2109 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2110 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2111 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2112 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2113 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2114 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2115 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2116 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2119 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2121 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2122 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2125 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2127 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2131 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2133 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2136 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2137 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2138 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2139 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2140 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2141 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2142 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2144 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2145 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2147 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2149 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2151 * non-maintainer release
2152 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2153 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2155 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2156 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2157 * no content changes
2158 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2160 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2162 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2166 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2168 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2172 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2173 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2174 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2176 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2177 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2179 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2180 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2181 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2182 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2184 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2185 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2186 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2187 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2188 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2189 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2190 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2192 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2193 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2194 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2197 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2198 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2199 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2201 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2202 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2203 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2205 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2206 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2208 * New version numbering scheme:
2210 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2211 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2212 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2215 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2216 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2217 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2218 differ between the manuals.
2220 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2221 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2222 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2223 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2225 * Packaging changes:
2227 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2228 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2230 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2232 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2234 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2238 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2239 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2240 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2242 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2243 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2246 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2247 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2248 file extension as the referenced file
2250 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2251 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2253 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2254 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2255 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2256 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2259 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2260 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2261 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2263 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2264 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2265 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2266 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2269 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2270 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2273 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2274 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2275 reasonable default configuration
2277 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2278 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2279 by all news servers and clients
2281 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2282 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2283 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2284 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2285 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2287 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2288 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2291 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2293 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2294 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2296 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2299 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2300 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2302 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2303 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2305 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2307 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2309 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2312 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2313 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2314 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2316 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2318 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2319 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2320 * Don't use debstd anymore
2322 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2324 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2327 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2328 contrib/non-free policy
2329 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2330 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2331 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2332 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2333 - new section about `Daemons'
2334 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2335 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2336 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2337 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2338 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2339 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2340 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2341 * SGML source code included in package
2342 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2344 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2346 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2349 - completely reworked structure
2350 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2351 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2352 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2353 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2354 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2355 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2356 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2357 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2358 - mention "orphaned packages"
2359 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2360 distributions' policy
2361 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2362 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2363 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2364 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2365 - added section about arch spec strings
2366 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2367 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2368 - added section about "menus"
2369 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2370 the new documentation policy soon
2371 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2372 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2374 - added section about editors and pagers
2375 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2376 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2377 - added section about device files
2378 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2379 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2380 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2382 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2383 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2384 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2385 - Added new section about obsolete names
2386 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2387 * Fixed package's description
2389 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2391 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2395 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2397 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2400 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2401 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2402 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2404 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2406 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2409 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2410 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2412 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2413 and upload it "byhand" too.
2415 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2417 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2421 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2422 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2423 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2424 functionality must not have the same name.
2425 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2426 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2427 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2428 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2429 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2430 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2431 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2433 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2434 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2435 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2436 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2437 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2438 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2439 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2440 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2443 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2445 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2447 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2449 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2450 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2451 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2452 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2453 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2456 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2458 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2460 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2462 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2463 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2464 description of deb file format.
2465 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2466 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2468 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2470 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2471 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2473 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2475 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2477 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2478 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2479 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2480 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2481 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2482 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2483 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2484 packages in section on Procedure
2485 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2486 a package maintainer
2487 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2488 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2489 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2491 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2492 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2493 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2494 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2495 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2496 on various shlib files
2497 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2498 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2499 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2501 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2503 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2505 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2506 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2507 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2509 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2510 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2511 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2512 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2513 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2515 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2517 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2519 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2521 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2523 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2524 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2525 compatibility go in contrib.
2527 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2528 instructions in policy manual.
2529 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2532 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2534 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2536 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2537 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2538 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2539 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2541 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2542 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2545 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2547 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2549 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2550 * More detail about changelog format names.
2552 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2553 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2557 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2559 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2561 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2563 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2565 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2567 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2569 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2571 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2572 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2573 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2575 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2577 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2579 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2581 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2583 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2587 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100