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 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
14 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
15 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
16 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
19 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification strings (11.1)
20 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
21 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
22 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
23 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
28 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
29 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
31 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
32 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
33 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright files (12.5)
34 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:51:39 +0200
41 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
44 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
47 Closes: #459868, #581011
48 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
49 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
51 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
54 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
56 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
59 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
61 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
69 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
72 Closes: #501930, #593909
73 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
74 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
78 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
79 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
80 machine. (Closes: #591857)
81 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
82 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
83 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
84 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
85 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
86 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
87 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
88 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
89 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
90 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
92 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
93 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
94 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
95 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
96 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
97 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
98 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
99 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
100 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
101 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
102 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
103 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
104 than the version in oldstable.
105 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
106 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
107 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
108 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
109 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
110 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
111 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
112 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
113 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
114 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
115 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
116 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
117 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
118 package. (Closes: #609160)
120 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
122 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
145 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
150 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
151 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
155 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
156 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
160 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
161 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
163 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
165 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
166 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
168 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
171 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
176 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
177 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
182 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
187 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
188 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
197 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
212 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
214 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
215 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
216 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
217 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
218 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
219 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
220 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
221 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
222 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
224 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
225 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
226 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
227 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
228 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
229 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
231 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
233 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
239 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
242 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
243 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
244 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
245 and distribution license' (three times).
246 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
247 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
252 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
254 Proposed by Santiago Vila
255 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
262 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
263 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
267 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
268 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
269 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
272 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
275 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
283 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
286 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
289 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
295 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
297 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
299 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
302 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
303 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
313 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
318 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
319 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
324 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
325 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
326 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
329 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
330 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
335 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
336 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
340 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
341 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
342 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
343 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
344 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
345 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
346 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
347 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
348 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
349 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
350 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
351 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
352 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
353 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
354 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
355 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
356 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
357 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
358 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
359 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
360 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
361 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
362 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
363 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
364 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
365 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
366 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
367 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
368 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
369 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
370 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
371 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
373 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
375 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
377 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
381 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
383 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
384 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
388 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
391 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
392 Wording: Steve Langasek.
393 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
394 Seconded: Julien Cristau
395 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
398 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
399 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
400 Seconded: Russ Allbery
401 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
404 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
405 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
406 Seconded: Russ Allbery
408 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
409 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
410 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
411 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
412 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
413 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
414 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
415 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
418 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
419 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
420 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
421 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
422 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
423 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
424 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
426 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
427 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
428 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
429 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
430 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
431 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
432 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
435 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
436 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
437 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
438 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
439 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
441 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
444 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
448 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
449 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
452 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
454 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
457 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
462 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
466 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
471 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
472 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
475 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
476 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
489 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
490 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
494 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
499 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
500 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
504 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
505 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
509 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
510 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
511 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
512 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
513 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
514 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
515 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
516 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
517 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
518 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
519 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
520 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
521 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
522 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
523 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
525 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
526 Source field descriptions.
527 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
528 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
529 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
530 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
531 description says otherwise.
533 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
535 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
539 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
542 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
543 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
546 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
550 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
555 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
556 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
560 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
561 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
562 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
563 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
567 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
568 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
569 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
570 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
571 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
573 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
574 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
578 * Add myself to Uploaders.
581 * Add myself to Uploaders.
582 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
584 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
585 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
586 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
588 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
590 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
593 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
600 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
607 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
610 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
612 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
625 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
627 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
630 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
632 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
633 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
634 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
637 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
638 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
642 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
646 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
648 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
649 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
650 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
651 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
652 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
653 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
654 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
655 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
656 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
657 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
658 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
659 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
660 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
661 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
662 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
663 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
664 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
665 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
666 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
667 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
668 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
669 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
670 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
671 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
672 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
673 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
674 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
675 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
676 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
677 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
679 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
680 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
681 links was completed long ago.
682 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
684 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
686 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
689 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
691 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
693 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
696 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
697 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
698 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
699 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
700 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
701 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
702 Millan (Closes: #209008).
703 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
704 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
706 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
708 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
710 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
711 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
712 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
713 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
714 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
715 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
716 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
718 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
719 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
720 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
721 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
723 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
724 Küster (Closes: #403391).
725 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
726 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
727 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
728 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
729 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
730 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
734 Closes: #186700, #458910
735 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
736 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
740 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
741 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
742 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
743 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
744 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
745 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
746 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
748 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
749 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
751 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
752 * Add an md5sums control file.
753 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
754 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
755 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
756 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
757 currently part of policy.
758 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
759 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
760 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
763 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
765 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
768 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
769 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
770 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
771 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
772 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
773 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
774 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
775 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
776 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
777 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
778 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
779 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
780 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
781 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
782 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
784 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
786 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
787 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
788 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
790 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
791 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
792 list?" (Closes: #412634).
793 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
794 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
795 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
796 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
797 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
798 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
799 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
800 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
801 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
802 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
803 debconf specification.
804 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
805 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
807 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
809 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
812 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
813 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
814 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
815 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
817 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
819 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
820 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
821 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
822 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
823 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
825 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
826 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
827 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
828 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
829 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
830 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
831 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
832 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
833 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
834 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
835 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
836 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
837 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
838 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
839 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
844 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
845 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
846 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
847 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
849 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
850 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
851 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
853 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
855 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
858 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
859 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
861 Polo (Closes: #372497).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
863 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
866 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
867 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
868 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
870 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
872 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
873 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
874 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
876 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
877 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
878 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
879 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
880 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
881 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
885 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
888 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
889 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
890 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
893 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
895 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
897 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
900 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
901 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
902 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
903 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
904 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
905 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
906 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
907 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
908 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
910 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
911 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
913 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
914 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
915 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
917 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
919 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
920 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
923 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
925 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
928 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
930 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
931 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
932 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
933 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
934 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
935 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
936 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
937 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
938 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
939 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
940 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
941 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
942 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
943 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
944 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
945 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
946 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
948 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
949 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
950 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
951 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
952 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
953 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
954 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
956 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
957 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
958 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
959 Hess (Closes: #362247).
960 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
961 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
962 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
963 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
964 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
965 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
966 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
967 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
968 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
969 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
970 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
971 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
974 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
976 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
977 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
979 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
980 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
981 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
982 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
983 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
984 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
985 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
986 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
988 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
990 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
994 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
996 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
998 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
999 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1000 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1002 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1003 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1004 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1008 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1010 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1011 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1013 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1014 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1015 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1016 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1017 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1019 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1021 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1022 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1023 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1025 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1028 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1030 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1033 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1034 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1035 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1037 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1038 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1039 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1040 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1042 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1044 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1048 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1049 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1050 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1051 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1052 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1053 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1054 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1055 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1056 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1058 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1059 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1060 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1063 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1064 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1066 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1067 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1068 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1070 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1071 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1072 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1073 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1076 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1077 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1078 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1080 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1081 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1082 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1085 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1086 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1087 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1089 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1090 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1091 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1092 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1093 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1094 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1095 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1096 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1097 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1098 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1099 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1100 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1102 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1104 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1108 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1109 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1110 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1111 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1112 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1113 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1114 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1115 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1117 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1118 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1119 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1120 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1121 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1122 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1123 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1124 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1125 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1126 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1127 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1128 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1130 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1131 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1132 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1136 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1137 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1140 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1141 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1142 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1144 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1145 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1146 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1147 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1148 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1149 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1151 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1152 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1154 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1155 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1156 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1157 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1158 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1159 Closes: #185943, #237049
1161 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1163 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1169 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1170 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1171 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1172 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1173 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1174 running. closes: Bug#187250
1175 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1176 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1177 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1178 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1179 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1180 user closes: Bug#176506
1182 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1184 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1188 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1189 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1190 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1191 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1192 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1193 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1194 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1195 deb-building toolchain.
1196 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1197 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1198 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1199 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1200 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1201 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1202 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1203 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1204 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1205 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1206 sections about changelog files.
1208 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1209 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1210 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1211 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1212 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1213 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1215 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1216 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1217 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1218 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1219 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1220 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1221 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1222 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1223 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1224 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1225 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1226 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1227 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1228 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1229 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1230 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1231 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1232 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1233 for the restructuring
1235 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1237 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1242 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1243 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1244 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1245 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1246 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1247 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1249 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1250 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1251 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1252 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1253 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1254 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1255 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1257 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1258 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1259 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1260 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1262 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1264 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1268 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1269 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1270 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1271 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1272 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1274 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1275 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1276 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1277 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1279 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1280 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1281 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1282 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1283 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1284 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1285 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1286 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1287 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1288 offtopic stuff, too.
1289 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1290 script should start it, closes: #60979
1291 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1292 "should", closes: #170019
1293 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1294 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1295 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1296 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1297 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1298 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1299 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1300 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1303 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1305 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1309 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1310 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1311 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1312 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1313 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1314 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1315 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1316 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1318 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1319 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1320 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1321 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1322 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1323 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1324 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1325 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1326 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1328 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1329 file, closes: Bug#65764
1331 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1333 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1336 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1337 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1338 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1339 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1340 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1341 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1342 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1343 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1344 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1345 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1346 details. closes: Bug#133030
1347 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1348 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1349 parts of Bug#161455.
1351 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1353 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1356 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1357 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1358 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1359 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1360 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1361 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1362 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1363 not. closes: Bug#139820
1364 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1365 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1366 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1367 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1368 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1369 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1370 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1371 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1372 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1373 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1375 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1377 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1378 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1379 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1380 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1381 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1382 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1383 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1384 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1385 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1386 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1387 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1388 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1389 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1390 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1391 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1392 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1393 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1394 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1395 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1396 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1398 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1399 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1400 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1401 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1402 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1403 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1404 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1406 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1407 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1408 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1409 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1410 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1411 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1412 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1413 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1414 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1416 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1418 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1421 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1422 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1423 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1424 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1425 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1426 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1427 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1428 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1429 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1430 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1431 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1432 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1433 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1434 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1435 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1436 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1437 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1438 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1439 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1440 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1441 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1442 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1444 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1446 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1449 medium, high, emergency.
1450 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1451 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1452 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1453 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1454 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1457 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1458 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1459 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1461 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1462 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1463 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1464 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1465 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1466 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1467 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1472 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1475 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1476 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1477 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1479 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1480 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1481 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1482 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1483 debian/rules to do this
1484 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1485 patches are incorporated upstream
1486 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1487 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1488 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1489 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1490 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1491 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1493 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1494 system closes: Bug#91249
1495 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1496 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1497 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1498 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1499 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1500 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1501 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1502 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1503 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1504 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1505 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1506 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1507 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1509 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1511 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1514 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1515 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1516 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1518 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1519 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1520 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1522 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1525 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1527 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1530 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1531 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1532 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1533 package for the time being
1534 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1535 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1536 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1537 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1538 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1539 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1540 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1541 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1542 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1543 Build-Depends arch syntax
1544 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1546 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1547 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1549 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1550 from policy maintenance duties.
1551 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1552 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1554 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1556 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1560 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1562 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1565 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1566 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1567 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1568 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1569 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1570 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1571 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1572 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1573 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1574 minor version number for this
1575 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1576 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1577 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1578 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1579 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1580 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1581 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1582 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1583 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1585 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1587 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1590 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1591 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1592 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1593 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1595 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1597 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1598 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1599 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1600 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1601 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1602 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1603 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1604 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1605 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1606 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1607 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1608 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1609 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1610 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1611 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1612 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1615 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1617 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1620 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1622 * Document the Enhances relationship
1623 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1624 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1625 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1626 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1627 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1628 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1630 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1632 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1633 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1634 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1635 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1637 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1638 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1639 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1640 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1641 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1643 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1645 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1648 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1649 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1651 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1652 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1653 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1654 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1655 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1656 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1657 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1658 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1659 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1661 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1663 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1665 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1668 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1669 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1670 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1671 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1672 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1673 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1674 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1675 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1676 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1677 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1678 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1679 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1680 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1681 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1682 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1683 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1684 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1685 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1686 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1687 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1688 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1690 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1691 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1695 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1698 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1699 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1700 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1701 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1702 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1703 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1704 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1705 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1706 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1707 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1708 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1709 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1710 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1711 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1712 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1713 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1714 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1715 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1716 list closes: Bug#53756
1717 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1718 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1719 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1720 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1721 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1722 policy closes: Bug#53760
1723 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1724 policy closes: Bug#53761
1725 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1726 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1727 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1728 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1729 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1730 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1731 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1732 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1733 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1734 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1735 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1737 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1738 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1739 to install with older fileutils.
1740 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1741 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1742 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1743 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1745 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1746 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1750 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1753 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1755 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1757 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1760 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1762 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1765 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1768 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1770 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1772 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1774 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1777 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1779 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1781 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1784 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1785 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1786 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1787 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1788 directoried (closes: #41547)
1789 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1790 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1791 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1792 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1793 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1794 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1795 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1796 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1797 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1798 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1799 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1801 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1802 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1803 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1804 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1805 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1806 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1807 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1809 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1810 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1811 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1812 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1814 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1816 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1818 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1819 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1821 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1823 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1826 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1830 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1833 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1835 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1836 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1837 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1838 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1839 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1840 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1841 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1842 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1843 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1844 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1845 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1846 this closes: Bug#38612
1847 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1848 before. closes: Bug#40864
1850 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1852 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1855 officially uploaded.
1856 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1858 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1859 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1860 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1862 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1863 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1864 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1865 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1866 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1867 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1869 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1870 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1871 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1873 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1875 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1876 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1877 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1878 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1879 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1881 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1883 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1886 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1887 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1888 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1889 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1890 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1891 there). closes: Bug#34233
1892 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1893 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1894 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1895 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1896 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1900 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1903 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1904 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1905 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1908 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1909 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1910 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1911 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1912 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1915 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1916 number. closes: BUG#25911
1918 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1919 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1920 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1921 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1922 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1923 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1925 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1926 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1927 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1930 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1931 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1932 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1934 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1935 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1936 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1937 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1939 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1940 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1941 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1943 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1945 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1946 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1947 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1948 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1949 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1950 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1951 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1952 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1955 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1957 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1958 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1961 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1963 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1967 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1969 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1972 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1973 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1974 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1975 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1976 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1977 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1978 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1980 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1981 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1983 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1985 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1987 * non-maintainer release
1988 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1989 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1991 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1992 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1993 * no content changes
1994 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1996 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1998 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2002 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2004 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2008 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2009 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2010 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2012 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2013 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2015 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2016 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2017 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2018 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2020 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2021 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2022 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2023 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2024 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2025 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2026 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2028 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2029 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2030 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2033 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2034 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2035 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2037 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2038 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2039 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2041 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2042 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2044 * New version numbering scheme:
2046 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2047 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2048 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2051 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2052 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2053 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2054 differ between the manuals.
2056 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2057 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2058 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2059 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2061 * Packaging changes:
2063 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2064 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2066 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2068 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2070 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2074 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2075 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2076 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2078 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2079 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2082 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2083 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2084 file extension as the referenced file
2086 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2087 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2089 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2090 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2091 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2092 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2095 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2096 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2097 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2099 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2100 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2101 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2102 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2105 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2106 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2109 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2110 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2111 reasonable default configuration
2113 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2114 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2115 by all news servers and clients
2117 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2118 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2119 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2120 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2121 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2123 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2124 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2127 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2129 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2130 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2132 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2135 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2136 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2138 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2139 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2141 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2143 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2145 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2148 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2149 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2150 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2152 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2154 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2155 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2156 * Don't use debstd anymore
2158 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2160 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2163 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2164 contrib/non-free policy
2165 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2166 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2167 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2168 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2169 - new section about `Daemons'
2170 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2171 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2172 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2173 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2174 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2175 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2176 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2177 * SGML source code included in package
2178 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2180 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2182 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2185 - completely reworked structure
2186 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2187 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2188 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2189 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2190 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2191 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2192 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2193 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2194 - mention "orphaned packages"
2195 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2196 distributions' policy
2197 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2198 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2199 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2200 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2201 - added section about arch spec strings
2202 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2203 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2204 - added section about "menus"
2205 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2206 the new documentation policy soon
2207 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2208 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2210 - added section about editors and pagers
2211 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2212 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2213 - added section about device files
2214 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2215 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2216 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2218 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2219 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2220 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2221 - Added new section about obsolete names
2222 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2223 * Fixed package's description
2225 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2227 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2231 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2233 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2236 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2237 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2238 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2240 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2242 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2245 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2246 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2248 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2249 and upload it "byhand" too.
2251 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2253 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2257 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2258 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2259 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2260 functionality must not have the same name.
2261 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2262 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2263 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2264 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2265 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2266 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2267 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2269 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2270 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2271 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2272 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2273 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2274 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2275 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2276 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2279 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2281 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2283 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2285 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2286 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2287 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2288 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2289 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2292 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2294 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2296 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2298 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2299 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2300 description of deb file format.
2301 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2302 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2304 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2306 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2307 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2309 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2311 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2313 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2314 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2315 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2316 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2317 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2318 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2319 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2320 packages in section on Procedure
2321 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2322 a package maintainer
2323 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2324 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2325 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2327 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2328 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2329 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2330 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2331 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2332 on various shlib files
2333 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2334 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2335 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2337 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2339 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2341 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2342 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2343 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2345 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2346 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2347 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2348 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2349 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2351 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2353 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2355 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2357 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2359 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2360 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2361 compatibility go in contrib.
2363 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2364 instructions in policy manual.
2365 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2368 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2370 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2372 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2373 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2374 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2375 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2377 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2378 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2381 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2383 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2385 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2386 * More detail about changelog format names.
2388 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2389 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2393 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2395 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2397 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2399 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2401 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2403 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2405 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2407 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2408 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2409 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2411 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2413 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2415 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2417 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2419 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2423 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100