1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
17 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
18 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
21 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
23 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
28 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
29 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
30 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
31 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
32 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
34 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
35 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
36 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
37 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
38 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
39 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
40 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
41 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
42 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
43 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
44 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
45 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
46 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
47 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
48 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
49 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
50 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
51 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
52 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
53 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
54 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
55 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
56 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
59 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
61 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
62 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
63 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
70 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
72 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
73 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
74 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
75 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
80 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
84 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
85 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
86 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
89 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
90 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
91 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
93 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
94 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
100 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
101 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
105 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
106 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
111 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
112 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
113 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
114 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
117 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
118 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
123 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
125 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
131 Closes: #459868, #581011
132 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
133 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
135 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
138 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
140 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
143 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
145 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
153 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
156 Closes: #501930, #593909
157 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
162 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
163 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
164 machine. (Closes: #591857)
165 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
166 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
167 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
168 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
169 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
170 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
171 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
172 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
173 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
174 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
176 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
177 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
178 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
179 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
180 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
181 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
182 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
183 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
184 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
185 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
186 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
187 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
188 than the version in oldstable.
189 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
190 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
191 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
192 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
193 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
194 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
195 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
196 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
197 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
198 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
199 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
200 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
201 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
202 package. (Closes: #609160)
204 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
206 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
209 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
214 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
219 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
230 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
234 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
235 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
239 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
244 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
245 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
247 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
249 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
250 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
252 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
254 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
255 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
260 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
261 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
266 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
267 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
271 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
272 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
277 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
281 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
282 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
296 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
298 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
299 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
300 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
301 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
302 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
303 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
304 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
305 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
306 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
308 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
309 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
310 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
311 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
312 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
313 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
315 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
317 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
323 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
326 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
327 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
328 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
329 and distribution license' (three times).
330 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
331 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
336 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
338 Proposed by Santiago Vila
339 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
346 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
352 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
356 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
358 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
359 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
363 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
367 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
370 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
373 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
375 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
376 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
379 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
381 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
382 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
383 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
386 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
387 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
397 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
402 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
403 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
408 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
409 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
413 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
414 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
419 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
420 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
424 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
425 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
426 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
427 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
428 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
429 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
430 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
431 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
432 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
433 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
434 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
435 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
436 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
437 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
438 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
439 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
440 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
441 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
442 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
443 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
444 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
445 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
446 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
447 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
448 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
449 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
450 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
451 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
452 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
453 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
454 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
455 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
457 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
459 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
461 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
465 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
467 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
468 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
472 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
475 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
476 Wording: Steve Langasek.
477 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
478 Seconded: Julien Cristau
479 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
482 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
483 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
484 Seconded: Russ Allbery
485 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
488 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
489 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery
492 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
493 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
494 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
495 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
496 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
497 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
498 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
499 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
502 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
503 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
504 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
505 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
506 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
507 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
508 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
510 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
511 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
512 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
513 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
514 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
515 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
516 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
519 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
520 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
521 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
522 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
523 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
525 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
528 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
532 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
533 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
536 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
538 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
546 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
550 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
556 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
559 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
560 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
568 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
569 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
573 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
574 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
578 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
583 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
584 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
588 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
589 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
593 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
594 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
595 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
596 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
597 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
598 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
599 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
600 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
601 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
602 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
603 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
604 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
605 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
606 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
607 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
609 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
610 Source field descriptions.
611 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
612 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
613 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
614 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
615 description says otherwise.
617 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
619 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
623 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
626 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
627 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
630 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
634 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
635 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
639 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
640 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
644 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
645 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
646 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
647 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
651 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
652 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
653 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
654 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
655 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
657 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
658 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
662 * Add myself to Uploaders.
665 * Add myself to Uploaders.
666 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
668 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
669 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
670 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
672 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
674 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
677 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
682 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
684 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
686 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
687 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
691 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
692 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
694 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
696 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
697 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
701 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
702 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
706 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
707 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
709 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
711 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
712 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
714 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
716 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
717 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
718 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
721 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
722 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
726 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
727 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
730 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
732 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
733 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
734 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
735 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
736 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
737 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
738 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
739 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
740 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
741 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
742 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
743 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
744 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
745 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
746 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
747 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
748 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
749 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
750 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
751 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
752 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
753 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
754 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
755 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
756 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
757 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
758 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
759 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
760 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
761 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
763 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
764 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
765 links was completed long ago.
766 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
768 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
770 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
773 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
775 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
777 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
780 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
781 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
782 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
783 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
784 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
785 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
786 Millan (Closes: #209008).
787 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
788 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
790 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
792 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
794 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
795 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
796 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
797 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
798 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
799 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
800 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
802 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
803 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
804 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
805 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
807 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
808 Küster (Closes: #403391).
809 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
810 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
811 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
812 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
813 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
814 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
818 Closes: #186700, #458910
819 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
820 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
823 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
824 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
825 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
826 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
827 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
828 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
829 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
830 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
832 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
833 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
835 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
836 * Add an md5sums control file.
837 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
838 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
839 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
840 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
841 currently part of policy.
842 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
843 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
844 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
847 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
849 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
852 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
853 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
854 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
855 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
856 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
857 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
858 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
859 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
860 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
862 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
863 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
864 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
865 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
866 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
868 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
870 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
871 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
872 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
874 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
875 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
876 list?" (Closes: #412634).
877 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
878 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
879 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
880 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
881 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
882 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
883 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
884 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
885 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
886 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
887 debconf specification.
888 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
889 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
891 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
893 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
896 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
898 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
899 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
901 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
904 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
905 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
906 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
907 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
909 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
910 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
911 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
912 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
913 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
914 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
915 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
916 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
917 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
918 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
919 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
920 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
921 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
923 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
926 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
929 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
930 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
931 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
933 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
934 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
935 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
937 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
939 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
942 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
943 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
945 Polo (Closes: #372497).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
947 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
950 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
951 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
952 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
954 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
955 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
956 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
958 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
960 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
961 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
962 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
963 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
964 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
965 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
967 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
969 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
972 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
973 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
974 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
976 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
977 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
979 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
981 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
984 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
985 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
986 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
987 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
988 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
989 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
990 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
991 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
992 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
994 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
995 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
997 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
998 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
999 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1001 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1003 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1004 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1007 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1009 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1012 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1014 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1015 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1016 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1017 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1018 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1019 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1020 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1021 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1022 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1023 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1024 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1025 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1026 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1027 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1028 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1029 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1030 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1031 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1032 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1033 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1034 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1035 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1036 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1037 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1038 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1040 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1041 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1042 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1043 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1044 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1045 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1046 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1047 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1048 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1049 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1050 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1051 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1052 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1053 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1054 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1055 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1057 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1058 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1060 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1061 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1063 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1064 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1065 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1066 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1067 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1068 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1069 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1070 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1072 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1074 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1078 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1080 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1082 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1083 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1084 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1085 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1086 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1087 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1088 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1091 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1092 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1093 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1094 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1095 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1097 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1098 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1099 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1100 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1101 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1103 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1105 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1106 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1107 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1109 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1112 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1114 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1117 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1118 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1119 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1121 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1122 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1124 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1126 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1128 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1132 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1133 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1134 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1135 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1137 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1138 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1139 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1140 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1143 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1144 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1147 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1148 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1150 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1151 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1152 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1154 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1155 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1156 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1157 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1160 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1161 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1162 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1163 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1164 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1165 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1166 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1169 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1170 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1171 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1173 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1174 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1175 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1177 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1178 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1179 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1180 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1181 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1182 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1183 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1184 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1186 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1188 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1192 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1193 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1194 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1195 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1196 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1197 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1198 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1199 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1201 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1202 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1203 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1204 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1205 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1206 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1207 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1208 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1209 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1210 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1211 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1212 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1214 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1215 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1216 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1220 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1221 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1224 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1225 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1226 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1228 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1229 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1230 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1231 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1232 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1233 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1235 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1236 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1238 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1239 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1240 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1241 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1242 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1243 Closes: #185943, #237049
1245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1247 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1253 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1254 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1255 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1256 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1257 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1258 running. closes: Bug#187250
1259 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1260 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1261 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1262 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1263 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1264 user closes: Bug#176506
1266 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1268 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1272 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1273 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1274 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1275 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1276 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1277 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1278 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1279 deb-building toolchain.
1280 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1281 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1282 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1283 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1284 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1285 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1286 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1287 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1288 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1289 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1290 sections about changelog files.
1292 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1293 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1294 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1295 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1296 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1297 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1299 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1300 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1301 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1302 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1303 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1304 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1305 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1306 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1307 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1308 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1309 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1310 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1311 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1312 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1313 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1314 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1315 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1316 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1317 for the restructuring
1319 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1321 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1326 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1327 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1328 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1329 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1330 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1331 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1333 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1334 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1335 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1336 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1337 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1338 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1339 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1341 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1342 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1343 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1344 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1346 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1348 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1352 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1353 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1354 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1355 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1356 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1358 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1359 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1360 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1361 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1363 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1364 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1365 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1366 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1367 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1368 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1369 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1370 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1371 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1372 offtopic stuff, too.
1373 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1374 script should start it, closes: #60979
1375 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1376 "should", closes: #170019
1377 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1378 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1379 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1380 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1381 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1382 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1383 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1384 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1387 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1389 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1393 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1394 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1395 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1396 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1397 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1398 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1399 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1400 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1402 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1403 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1404 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1405 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1406 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1407 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1408 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1409 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1410 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1412 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1413 file, closes: Bug#65764
1415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1417 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1420 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1421 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1422 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1423 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1424 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1425 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1426 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1427 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1428 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1429 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1430 details. closes: Bug#133030
1431 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1432 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1433 parts of Bug#161455.
1435 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1437 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1440 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1441 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1442 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1443 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1444 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1445 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1446 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1447 not. closes: Bug#139820
1448 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1449 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1450 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1451 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1452 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1453 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1454 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1455 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1456 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1457 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1459 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1461 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1462 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1463 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1464 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1465 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1466 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1467 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1468 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1469 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1470 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1471 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1472 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1473 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1474 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1475 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1476 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1477 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1478 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1479 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1480 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1482 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1483 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1484 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1485 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1486 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1487 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1488 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1490 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1491 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1492 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1493 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1494 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1495 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1496 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1497 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1498 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1500 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1502 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1505 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1506 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1507 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1508 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1509 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1510 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1511 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1512 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1513 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1514 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1515 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1516 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1517 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1518 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1519 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1520 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1521 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1522 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1523 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1524 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1525 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1526 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1528 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1530 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1533 medium, high, emergency.
1534 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1535 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1536 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1537 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1538 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1541 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1542 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1543 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1545 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1546 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1547 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1548 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1549 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1550 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1551 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1554 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1556 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1559 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1560 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1561 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1563 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1564 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1565 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1566 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1567 debian/rules to do this
1568 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1569 patches are incorporated upstream
1570 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1571 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1572 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1573 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1574 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1575 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1577 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1578 system closes: Bug#91249
1579 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1580 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1581 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1582 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1583 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1584 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1585 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1586 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1587 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1588 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1589 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1590 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1591 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1593 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1595 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1598 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1599 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1600 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1602 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1603 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1604 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1606 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1609 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1611 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1614 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1615 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1616 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1617 package for the time being
1618 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1619 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1620 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1621 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1622 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1623 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1624 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1625 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1626 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1627 Build-Depends arch syntax
1628 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1630 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1631 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1633 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1634 from policy maintenance duties.
1635 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1636 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1640 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1644 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1646 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1649 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1650 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1651 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1652 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1653 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1654 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1655 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1656 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1657 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1658 minor version number for this
1659 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1660 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1661 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1662 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1663 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1664 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1665 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1666 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1667 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1669 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1671 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1674 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1675 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1676 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1677 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1679 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1681 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1682 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1683 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1684 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1685 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1686 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1687 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1688 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1689 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1690 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1691 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1692 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1693 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1694 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1695 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1696 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1699 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1701 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1704 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1706 * Document the Enhances relationship
1707 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1708 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1709 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1710 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1711 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1712 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1714 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1716 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1717 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1718 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1719 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1721 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1722 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1723 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1724 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1725 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1727 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1729 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1732 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1733 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1735 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1736 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1737 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1738 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1739 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1740 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1741 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1742 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1743 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1745 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1747 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1749 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1752 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1753 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1754 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1755 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1756 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1757 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1758 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1759 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1760 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1761 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1762 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1763 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1764 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1765 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1766 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1767 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1768 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1769 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1770 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1771 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1772 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1774 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1775 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1777 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1779 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1782 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1783 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1784 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1785 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1786 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1787 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1788 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1789 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1790 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1791 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1792 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1793 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1794 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1795 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1796 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1797 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1798 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1799 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1800 list closes: Bug#53756
1801 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1802 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1803 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1804 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1805 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1806 policy closes: Bug#53760
1807 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1808 policy closes: Bug#53761
1809 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1810 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1811 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1812 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1813 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1814 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1815 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1816 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1817 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1818 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1819 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1821 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1822 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1823 to install with older fileutils.
1824 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1825 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1826 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1827 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1829 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1830 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1832 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1834 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1837 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1839 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1841 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1844 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1846 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1849 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1852 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1854 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1856 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1858 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1861 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1863 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1865 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1868 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1869 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1870 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1871 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1872 directoried (closes: #41547)
1873 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1874 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1875 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1876 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1877 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1878 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1879 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1880 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1881 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1882 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1883 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1885 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1886 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1887 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1888 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1889 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1890 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1891 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1893 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1894 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1895 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1896 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1898 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1900 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1902 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1903 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1905 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1907 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1910 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1914 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1917 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1919 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1920 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1921 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1922 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1923 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1924 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1925 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1926 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1927 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1928 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1929 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1930 this closes: Bug#38612
1931 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1932 before. closes: Bug#40864
1934 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1936 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1939 officially uploaded.
1940 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1942 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1943 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1944 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1946 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1947 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1948 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1949 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1950 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1951 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1953 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1954 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1955 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1957 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1959 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1960 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1961 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1962 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1963 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1965 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1967 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1970 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1971 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1972 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1973 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1974 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1975 there). closes: Bug#34233
1976 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1977 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1978 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1979 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1980 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1982 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1984 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1987 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1988 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1989 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1992 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1993 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1994 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1995 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1996 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1999 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2000 number. closes: BUG#25911
2002 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2003 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2004 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2005 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2006 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2007 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2009 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2010 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2011 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2014 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2015 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2016 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2018 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2019 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2020 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2021 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2023 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2024 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2025 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2027 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2029 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2030 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2031 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2032 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2033 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2034 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2035 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2036 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2039 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2041 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2042 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2045 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2047 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2051 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2053 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2056 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2057 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2058 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2059 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2060 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2061 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2062 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2064 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2065 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2067 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2069 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2071 * non-maintainer release
2072 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2073 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2075 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2076 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2077 * no content changes
2078 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2080 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2082 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2086 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2088 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2092 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2093 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2094 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2096 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2097 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2099 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2100 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2101 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2102 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2104 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2105 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2106 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2107 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2108 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2109 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2110 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2112 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2113 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2114 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2117 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2118 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2119 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2121 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2122 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2123 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2125 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2126 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2128 * New version numbering scheme:
2130 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2131 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2132 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2135 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2136 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2137 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2138 differ between the manuals.
2140 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2141 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2142 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2143 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2145 * Packaging changes:
2147 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2148 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2150 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2152 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2154 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2158 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2159 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2160 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2162 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2163 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2166 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2167 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2168 file extension as the referenced file
2170 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2171 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2173 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2174 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2175 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2176 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2179 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2180 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2181 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2183 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2184 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2185 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2186 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2189 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2190 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2193 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2194 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2195 reasonable default configuration
2197 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2198 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2199 by all news servers and clients
2201 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2202 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2203 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2204 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2205 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2207 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2208 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2211 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2213 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2214 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2216 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2219 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2220 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2222 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2223 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2225 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2227 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2229 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2232 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2233 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2234 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2236 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2238 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2239 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2240 * Don't use debstd anymore
2242 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2244 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2247 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2248 contrib/non-free policy
2249 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2250 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2251 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2252 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2253 - new section about `Daemons'
2254 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2255 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2256 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2257 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2258 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2259 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2260 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2261 * SGML source code included in package
2262 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2264 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2266 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2269 - completely reworked structure
2270 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2271 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2272 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2273 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2274 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2275 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2276 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2277 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2278 - mention "orphaned packages"
2279 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2280 distributions' policy
2281 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2282 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2283 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2284 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2285 - added section about arch spec strings
2286 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2287 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2288 - added section about "menus"
2289 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2290 the new documentation policy soon
2291 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2292 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2294 - added section about editors and pagers
2295 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2296 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2297 - added section about device files
2298 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2299 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2300 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2302 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2303 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2304 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2305 - Added new section about obsolete names
2306 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2307 * Fixed package's description
2309 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2311 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2315 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2317 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2320 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2321 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2322 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2324 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2326 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2329 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2330 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2332 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2333 and upload it "byhand" too.
2335 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2337 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2341 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2342 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2343 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2344 functionality must not have the same name.
2345 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2346 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2347 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2348 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2349 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2350 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2351 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2353 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2354 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2355 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2356 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2357 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2358 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2359 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2360 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2363 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2365 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2367 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2369 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2370 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2371 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2372 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2373 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2376 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2378 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2380 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2382 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2383 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2384 description of deb file format.
2385 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2386 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2388 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2390 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2391 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2393 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2395 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2397 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2398 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2399 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2400 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2401 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2402 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2403 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2404 packages in section on Procedure
2405 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2406 a package maintainer
2407 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2408 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2409 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2411 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2412 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2413 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2414 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2415 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2416 on various shlib files
2417 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2418 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2419 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2421 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2423 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2425 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2426 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2427 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2429 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2430 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2431 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2432 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2433 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2435 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2437 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2439 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2441 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2443 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2444 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2445 compatibility go in contrib.
2447 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2448 instructions in policy manual.
2449 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2452 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2454 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2456 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2457 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2458 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2459 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2461 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2462 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2465 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2467 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2469 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2470 * More detail about changelog format names.
2472 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2473 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2477 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2479 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2481 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2483 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2485 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2487 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2489 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2491 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2492 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2493 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2495 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2497 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2499 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2501 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2503 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2507 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100