1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
14 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
16 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
17 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
18 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
19 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
20 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
21 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
24 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
26 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
27 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
28 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
35 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
38 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
39 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
41 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
45 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
46 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
50 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
51 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
56 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
57 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
58 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
59 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
62 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
63 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:55:12 +0100
70 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
73 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
76 Closes: #459868, #581011
77 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
80 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
83 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
85 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
88 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
90 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
98 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
101 Closes: #501930, #593909
102 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
107 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
108 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
109 machine. (Closes: #591857)
110 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
111 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
112 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
113 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
114 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
115 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
116 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
117 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
118 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
119 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
121 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
122 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
123 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
124 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
125 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
126 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
127 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
128 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
129 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
130 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
131 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
132 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
133 than the version in oldstable.
134 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
135 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
136 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
137 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
138 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
139 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
140 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
141 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
142 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
143 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
144 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
145 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
146 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
147 package. (Closes: #609160)
149 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
151 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
159 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
160 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
165 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
174 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
175 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
179 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
185 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
190 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
192 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
194 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
195 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
197 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
205 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
206 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
211 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
216 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
217 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
226 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
231 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
236 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
241 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
243 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
244 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
245 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
246 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
247 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
248 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
249 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
250 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
251 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
253 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
254 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
255 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
256 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
257 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
258 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
260 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
262 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
268 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
271 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
272 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
273 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
274 and distribution license' (three times).
275 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
276 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
281 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
283 Proposed by Santiago Vila
284 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
296 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
297 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
301 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
312 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
315 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
318 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
324 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
328 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
337 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
338 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
342 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
343 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
347 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
348 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
353 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
354 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
355 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
358 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
359 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
364 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
365 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
369 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
370 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
371 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
372 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
373 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
374 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
375 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
376 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
377 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
378 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
379 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
380 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
381 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
382 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
383 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
384 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
385 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
386 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
387 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
388 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
389 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
390 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
391 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
392 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
393 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
394 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
395 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
396 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
397 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
398 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
399 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
400 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
402 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
404 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
406 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
410 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
412 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
413 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
417 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
420 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
421 Wording: Steve Langasek.
422 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
423 Seconded: Julien Cristau
424 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
427 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
428 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
429 Seconded: Russ Allbery
430 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
433 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
434 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
435 Seconded: Russ Allbery
437 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
438 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
439 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
440 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
441 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
442 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
443 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
444 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
447 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
448 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
449 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
450 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
451 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
452 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
453 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
455 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
456 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
457 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
458 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
459 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
460 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
464 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
465 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
466 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
467 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
468 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
470 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
473 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
477 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
478 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
481 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
483 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
491 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
495 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
500 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
501 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
504 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
505 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
507 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
508 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
513 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
514 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
518 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
519 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
523 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
528 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
533 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
534 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
538 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
539 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
540 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
541 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
542 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
543 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
544 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
545 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
546 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
547 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
548 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
549 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
550 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
551 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
552 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
554 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
555 Source field descriptions.
556 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
557 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
558 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
559 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
560 description says otherwise.
562 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
564 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
568 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
571 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
572 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
574 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
575 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
579 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
584 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
585 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
589 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
590 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
591 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
592 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
596 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
597 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
598 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
599 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
600 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
602 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
603 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
607 * Add myself to Uploaders.
610 * Add myself to Uploaders.
611 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
613 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
614 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
615 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
617 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
619 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
622 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
629 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
631 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
636 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
637 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
639 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
641 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
642 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
646 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
647 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
651 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
652 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
654 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
656 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
657 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
659 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
661 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
662 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
663 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
666 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
667 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
671 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
672 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
675 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
677 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
678 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
679 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
680 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
681 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
682 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
683 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
684 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
685 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
686 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
687 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
688 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
689 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
690 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
691 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
692 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
693 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
694 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
695 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
696 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
697 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
698 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
699 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
700 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
701 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
702 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
703 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
704 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
705 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
706 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
708 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
709 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
710 links was completed long ago.
711 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
713 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
715 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
718 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
720 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
722 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
725 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
726 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
727 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
728 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
729 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
730 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
731 Millan (Closes: #209008).
732 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
733 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
735 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
737 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
739 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
740 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
741 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
742 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
743 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
744 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
745 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
747 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
748 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
749 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
750 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
752 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
753 Küster (Closes: #403391).
754 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
755 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
756 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
757 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
758 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
759 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
763 Closes: #186700, #458910
764 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
765 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
769 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
770 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
771 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
772 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
773 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
774 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
775 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
777 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
778 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
780 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
781 * Add an md5sums control file.
782 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
783 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
784 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
785 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
786 currently part of policy.
787 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
788 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
789 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
792 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
794 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
797 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
798 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
799 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
800 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
801 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
802 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
803 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
804 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
805 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
807 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
808 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
809 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
810 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
811 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
813 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
815 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
816 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
817 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
819 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
820 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
821 list?" (Closes: #412634).
822 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
823 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
824 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
825 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
826 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
827 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
828 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
829 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
830 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
831 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
832 debconf specification.
833 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
834 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
836 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
838 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
841 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
843 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
844 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
849 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
850 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
851 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
852 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
854 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
855 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
856 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
857 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
858 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
859 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
860 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
861 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
862 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
863 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
864 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
865 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
866 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
868 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
873 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
874 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
875 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
876 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
878 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
879 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
880 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
882 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
884 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
887 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
888 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
890 Polo (Closes: #372497).
891 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
892 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
895 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
896 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
897 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
898 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
899 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
900 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
901 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
903 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
905 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
906 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
907 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
908 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
909 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
910 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
914 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
917 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
918 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
919 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
921 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
922 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
924 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
926 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
929 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
930 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
931 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
932 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
933 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
934 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
935 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
936 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
937 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
939 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
940 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
942 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
943 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
944 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
946 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
948 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
949 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
952 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
954 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
957 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
959 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
960 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
961 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
962 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
963 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
964 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
965 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
966 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
967 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
968 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
969 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
970 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
971 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
972 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
973 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
974 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
975 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
976 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
977 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
978 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
979 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
980 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
981 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
982 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
983 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
985 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
986 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
987 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
988 Hess (Closes: #362247).
989 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
990 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
991 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
992 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
993 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
994 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
995 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
996 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
997 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
998 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
999 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1000 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1003 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1006 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1008 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1009 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1010 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1011 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1012 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1013 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1014 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1015 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1017 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1019 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1023 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1025 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1027 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1028 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1029 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1031 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1032 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1033 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1037 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1038 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1039 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1040 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1041 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1042 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1043 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1044 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1046 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1048 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1049 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1050 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1051 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1052 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1054 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1057 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1059 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1062 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1063 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1064 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1066 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1067 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1069 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1071 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1073 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1077 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1078 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1079 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1080 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1082 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1083 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1084 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1085 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1088 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1089 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1091 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1092 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1093 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1094 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1095 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1096 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1097 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1099 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1100 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1101 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1102 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1105 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1106 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1107 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1109 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1110 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1111 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1114 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1115 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1116 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1118 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1119 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1120 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1122 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1123 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1124 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1125 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1126 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1127 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1128 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1129 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1131 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1133 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1137 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1138 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1139 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1140 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1141 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1142 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1143 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1144 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1146 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1147 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1148 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1149 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1150 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1151 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1152 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1153 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1154 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1155 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1156 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1157 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1159 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1160 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1161 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1165 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1166 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1169 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1170 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1171 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1173 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1174 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1175 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1176 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1177 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1178 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1180 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1181 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1183 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1184 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1185 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1186 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1187 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1188 Closes: #185943, #237049
1190 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1192 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1198 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1199 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1200 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1201 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1202 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1203 running. closes: Bug#187250
1204 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1205 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1206 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1207 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1208 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1209 user closes: Bug#176506
1211 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1213 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1217 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1218 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1219 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1220 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1221 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1222 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1223 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1224 deb-building toolchain.
1225 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1226 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1227 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1228 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1229 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1230 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1231 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1232 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1233 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1234 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1235 sections about changelog files.
1237 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1238 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1239 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1240 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1241 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1242 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1244 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1245 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1246 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1247 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1248 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1249 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1250 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1251 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1252 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1253 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1254 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1255 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1256 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1257 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1258 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1259 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1260 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1261 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1262 for the restructuring
1264 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1266 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1271 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1272 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1273 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1274 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1275 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1276 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1278 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1279 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1280 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1281 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1282 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1283 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1284 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1286 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1287 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1288 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1289 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1291 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1293 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1297 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1298 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1299 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1300 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1301 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1303 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1304 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1305 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1306 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1308 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1309 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1310 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1311 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1312 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1313 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1314 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1315 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1316 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1317 offtopic stuff, too.
1318 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1319 script should start it, closes: #60979
1320 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1321 "should", closes: #170019
1322 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1323 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1324 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1325 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1326 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1327 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1328 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1329 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1332 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1334 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1338 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1339 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1340 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1341 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1342 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1343 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1344 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1345 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1347 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1348 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1349 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1350 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1351 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1352 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1353 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1354 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1355 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1357 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1358 file, closes: Bug#65764
1360 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1362 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1365 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1366 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1367 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1368 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1369 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1370 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1371 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1372 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1373 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1374 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1375 details. closes: Bug#133030
1376 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1377 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1378 parts of Bug#161455.
1380 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1382 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1385 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1386 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1387 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1388 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1389 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1390 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1391 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1392 not. closes: Bug#139820
1393 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1394 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1395 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1396 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1397 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1398 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1399 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1400 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1401 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1402 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1404 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1406 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1407 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1408 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1409 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1410 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1411 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1412 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1413 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1414 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1415 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1416 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1417 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1418 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1419 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1420 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1421 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1422 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1423 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1424 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1425 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1427 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1428 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1429 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1430 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1431 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1432 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1433 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1435 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1436 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1437 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1438 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1439 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1440 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1441 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1442 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1443 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1445 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1447 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1450 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1451 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1452 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1453 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1454 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1455 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1456 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1457 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1458 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1459 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1460 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1461 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1462 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1463 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1464 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1465 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1466 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1467 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1468 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1469 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1470 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1471 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1473 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1475 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1478 medium, high, emergency.
1479 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1480 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1481 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1482 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1483 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1486 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1487 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1488 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1490 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1491 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1492 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1493 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1494 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1495 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1496 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1499 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1501 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1504 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1505 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1506 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1508 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1509 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1510 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1511 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1512 debian/rules to do this
1513 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1514 patches are incorporated upstream
1515 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1516 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1517 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1518 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1519 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1520 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1522 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1523 system closes: Bug#91249
1524 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1525 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1526 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1527 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1528 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1529 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1530 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1531 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1532 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1533 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1534 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1535 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1536 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1538 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1540 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1543 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1544 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1545 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1547 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1548 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1549 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1551 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1554 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1556 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1559 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1560 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1561 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1562 package for the time being
1563 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1564 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1565 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1566 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1567 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1568 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1569 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1570 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1571 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1572 Build-Depends arch syntax
1573 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1575 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1576 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1578 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1579 from policy maintenance duties.
1580 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1581 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1583 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1585 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1589 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1591 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1594 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1595 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1596 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1597 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1598 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1599 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1600 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1601 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1602 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1603 minor version number for this
1604 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1605 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1606 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1607 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1608 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1609 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1610 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1611 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1612 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1614 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1616 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1619 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1620 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1621 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1622 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1624 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1626 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1627 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1628 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1629 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1630 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1631 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1632 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1633 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1634 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1635 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1636 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1637 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1638 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1639 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1640 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1641 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1644 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1646 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1649 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1651 * Document the Enhances relationship
1652 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1653 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1654 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1655 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1656 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1657 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1659 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1661 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1662 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1663 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1664 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1666 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1667 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1668 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1669 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1670 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1672 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1674 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1677 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1678 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1680 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1681 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1682 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1683 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1684 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1685 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1686 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1687 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1688 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1690 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1692 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1694 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1697 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1698 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1699 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1700 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1701 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1702 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1703 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1704 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1705 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1706 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1707 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1708 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1709 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1710 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1711 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1712 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1713 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1714 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1715 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1716 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1717 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1719 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1720 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1722 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1724 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1727 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1728 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1729 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1730 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1731 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1732 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1733 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1734 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1735 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1736 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1737 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1738 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1739 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1740 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1741 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1742 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1743 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1744 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1745 list closes: Bug#53756
1746 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1747 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1748 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1749 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1750 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1751 policy closes: Bug#53760
1752 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1753 policy closes: Bug#53761
1754 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1755 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1756 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1757 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1758 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1759 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1760 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1761 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1762 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1763 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1764 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1766 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1767 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1768 to install with older fileutils.
1769 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1770 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1771 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1772 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1774 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1775 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1777 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1779 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1782 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1784 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1786 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1789 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1791 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1794 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1797 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1799 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1801 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1803 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1806 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1808 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1810 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1813 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1814 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1815 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1816 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1817 directoried (closes: #41547)
1818 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1819 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1820 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1821 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1822 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1823 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1824 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1825 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1826 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1827 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1828 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1830 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1831 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1832 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1833 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1834 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1835 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1836 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1838 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1839 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1840 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1841 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1843 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1845 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1847 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1848 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1850 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1852 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1855 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1859 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1862 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1864 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1865 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1866 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1867 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1868 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1869 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1870 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1871 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1872 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1873 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1874 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1875 this closes: Bug#38612
1876 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1877 before. closes: Bug#40864
1879 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1881 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1884 officially uploaded.
1885 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1887 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1888 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1889 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1891 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1892 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1893 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1894 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1895 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1896 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1898 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1899 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1900 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1902 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1904 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1905 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1906 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1907 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1908 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1910 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1912 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1915 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1916 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1917 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1918 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1919 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1920 there). closes: Bug#34233
1921 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1922 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1923 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1924 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1925 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1927 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1929 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1932 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1933 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1934 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1937 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1938 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1939 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1940 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1941 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1944 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1945 number. closes: BUG#25911
1947 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1948 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1949 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1950 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1951 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1952 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1954 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1955 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1956 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1959 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1960 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1961 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1963 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1964 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1965 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1966 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1968 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1969 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1970 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1972 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1974 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1975 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1976 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1977 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1978 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1979 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1980 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1981 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1984 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1986 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1987 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1990 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1992 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1996 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1998 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2001 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2002 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2003 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2004 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2005 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2006 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2007 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2009 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2010 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2012 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2014 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2016 * non-maintainer release
2017 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2018 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2020 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2021 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2022 * no content changes
2023 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2025 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2027 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2031 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2033 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2037 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2038 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2039 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2041 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2042 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2044 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2045 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2046 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2047 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2049 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2050 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2051 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2052 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2053 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2054 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2055 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2057 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2058 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2059 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2062 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2063 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2064 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2066 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2067 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2068 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2070 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2071 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2073 * New version numbering scheme:
2075 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2076 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2077 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2080 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2081 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2082 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2083 differ between the manuals.
2085 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2086 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2087 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2088 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2090 * Packaging changes:
2092 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2093 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2095 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2097 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2099 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2103 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2104 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2105 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2107 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2108 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2111 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2112 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2113 file extension as the referenced file
2115 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2116 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2118 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2119 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2120 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2121 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2124 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2125 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2126 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2128 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2129 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2130 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2131 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2134 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2135 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2138 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2139 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2140 reasonable default configuration
2142 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2143 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2144 by all news servers and clients
2146 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2147 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2148 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2149 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2150 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2152 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2153 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2156 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2158 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2159 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2161 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2164 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2165 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2167 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2168 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2170 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2172 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2174 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2177 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2178 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2179 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2181 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2183 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2184 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2185 * Don't use debstd anymore
2187 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2189 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2192 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2193 contrib/non-free policy
2194 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2195 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2196 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2197 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2198 - new section about `Daemons'
2199 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2200 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2201 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2202 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2203 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2204 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2205 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2206 * SGML source code included in package
2207 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2209 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2211 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2214 - completely reworked structure
2215 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2216 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2217 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2218 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2219 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2220 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2221 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2222 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2223 - mention "orphaned packages"
2224 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2225 distributions' policy
2226 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2227 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2228 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2229 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2230 - added section about arch spec strings
2231 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2232 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2233 - added section about "menus"
2234 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2235 the new documentation policy soon
2236 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2237 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2239 - added section about editors and pagers
2240 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2241 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2242 - added section about device files
2243 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2244 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2245 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2247 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2248 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2249 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2250 - Added new section about obsolete names
2251 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2252 * Fixed package's description
2254 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2256 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2260 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2262 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2265 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2266 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2267 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2269 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2271 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2274 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2275 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2277 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2278 and upload it "byhand" too.
2280 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2282 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2286 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2287 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2288 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2289 functionality must not have the same name.
2290 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2291 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2292 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2293 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2294 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2295 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2296 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2298 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2299 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2300 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2301 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2302 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2303 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2304 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2305 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2308 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2310 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2312 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2314 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2315 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2316 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2317 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2318 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2321 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2323 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2325 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2327 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2328 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2329 description of deb file format.
2330 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2331 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2333 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2335 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2336 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2338 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2340 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2342 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2343 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2344 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2345 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2346 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2347 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2348 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2349 packages in section on Procedure
2350 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2351 a package maintainer
2352 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2353 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2354 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2356 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2357 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2358 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2359 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2360 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2361 on various shlib files
2362 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2363 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2364 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2366 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2368 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2370 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2371 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2372 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2374 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2375 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2376 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2377 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2378 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2380 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2382 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2384 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2386 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2388 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2389 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2390 compatibility go in contrib.
2392 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2393 instructions in policy manual.
2394 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2397 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2399 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2401 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2402 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2403 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2404 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2406 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2407 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2410 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2412 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2414 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2415 * More detail about changelog format names.
2417 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2418 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2422 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2424 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2426 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2428 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2430 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2432 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2434 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2436 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2437 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2438 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2440 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2442 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2444 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2446 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2448 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2452 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100