1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
14 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
16 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
17 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
18 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
19 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
20 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
21 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
24 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
26 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
27 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
28 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
35 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
38 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
39 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
40 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
43 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
45 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
49 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
50 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
51 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
54 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
55 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
56 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
58 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
59 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
65 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
66 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
67 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
70 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
71 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
76 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
77 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
78 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
79 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
82 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
83 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
88 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
90 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
96 Closes: #459868, #581011
97 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
103 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
108 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
110 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
117 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
118 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
121 Closes: #501930, #593909
122 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
123 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
127 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
128 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
129 machine. (Closes: #591857)
130 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
131 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
132 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
133 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
134 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
135 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
136 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
137 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
138 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
139 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
141 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
142 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
143 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
144 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
145 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
146 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
147 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
148 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
149 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
150 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
151 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
152 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
153 than the version in oldstable.
154 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
155 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
156 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
157 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
158 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
159 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
160 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
161 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
162 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
163 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
164 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
165 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
166 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
167 package. (Closes: #609160)
169 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
171 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
179 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
185 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
190 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
194 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
195 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
199 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
204 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
209 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
212 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
214 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
217 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
219 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
225 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
231 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
236 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
237 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
241 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
242 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
246 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
247 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
251 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
252 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
256 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
257 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
261 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
263 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
264 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
265 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
266 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
267 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
268 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
269 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
270 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
271 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
273 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
274 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
275 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
276 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
277 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
278 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
280 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
282 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
288 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
291 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
292 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
293 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
294 and distribution license' (three times).
295 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
296 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
301 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
303 Proposed by Santiago Vila
304 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
317 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
318 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
321 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
323 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
324 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
328 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
329 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
332 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
335 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
338 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
340 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
344 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
346 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
348 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
362 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
367 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
373 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
374 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
375 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
378 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
379 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
384 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
385 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
389 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
390 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
391 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
392 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
393 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
394 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
395 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
396 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
397 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
398 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
399 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
400 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
401 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
402 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
403 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
404 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
405 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
406 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
407 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
408 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
409 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
410 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
411 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
412 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
413 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
414 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
415 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
416 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
417 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
418 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
419 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
420 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
422 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
424 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
426 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
430 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
432 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
433 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
437 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
440 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
441 Wording: Steve Langasek.
442 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
443 Seconded: Julien Cristau
444 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
447 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
448 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
449 Seconded: Russ Allbery
450 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
453 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
454 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
455 Seconded: Russ Allbery
457 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
458 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
459 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
460 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
461 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
462 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
463 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
464 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
467 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
468 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
469 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
470 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
471 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
472 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
473 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
475 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
476 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
477 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
478 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
479 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
480 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
481 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
484 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
485 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
486 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
487 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
488 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
490 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
493 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
494 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
497 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
498 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
501 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
503 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
510 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
511 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
515 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
516 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
520 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
521 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
524 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
525 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
527 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
528 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
533 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
534 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
538 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
539 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
543 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
544 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
548 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
549 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
553 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
554 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
556 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
558 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
559 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
560 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
561 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
562 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
563 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
564 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
565 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
566 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
567 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
568 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
569 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
570 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
571 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
572 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
574 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
575 Source field descriptions.
576 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
577 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
578 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
579 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
580 description says otherwise.
582 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
584 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
588 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
591 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
592 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
594 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
595 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
599 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
604 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
605 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
609 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
610 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
611 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
612 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
616 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
617 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
618 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
619 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
620 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
622 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
623 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
627 * Add myself to Uploaders.
630 * Add myself to Uploaders.
631 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
633 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
634 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
635 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
637 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
639 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
642 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
647 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
649 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
651 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
652 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
656 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
657 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
659 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
661 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
662 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
666 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
667 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
671 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
672 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
674 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
676 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
677 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
679 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
681 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
682 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
683 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
686 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
687 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
691 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
692 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
695 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
697 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
698 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
699 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
700 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
701 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
702 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
703 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
704 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
705 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
706 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
707 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
708 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
709 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
710 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
711 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
712 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
713 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
714 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
715 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
716 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
717 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
718 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
719 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
720 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
721 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
722 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
723 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
724 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
725 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
726 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
728 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
729 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
730 links was completed long ago.
731 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
733 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
735 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
738 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
740 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
742 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
745 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
746 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
747 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
748 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
749 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
750 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
751 Millan (Closes: #209008).
752 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
753 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
755 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
757 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
759 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
760 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
761 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
762 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
763 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
764 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
765 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
767 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
768 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
769 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
770 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
772 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
773 Küster (Closes: #403391).
774 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
775 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
776 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
777 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
778 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
779 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
781 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
783 Closes: #186700, #458910
784 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
785 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
786 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
789 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
790 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
791 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
792 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
793 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
794 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
795 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
797 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
798 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
800 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
801 * Add an md5sums control file.
802 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
803 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
804 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
805 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
806 currently part of policy.
807 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
808 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
809 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
812 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
814 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
817 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
818 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
819 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
820 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
821 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
822 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
823 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
824 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
825 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
827 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
828 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
829 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
830 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
831 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
833 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
835 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
836 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
837 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
839 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
840 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
841 list?" (Closes: #412634).
842 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
843 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
844 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
845 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
846 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
847 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
848 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
849 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
850 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
851 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
852 debconf specification.
853 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
854 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
856 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
858 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
861 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
863 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
864 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
868 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
869 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
870 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
871 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
872 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
874 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
875 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
876 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
877 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
878 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
879 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
880 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
881 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
882 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
883 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
884 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
885 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
886 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
888 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
891 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
894 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
895 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
896 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
898 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
899 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
900 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
902 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
904 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
907 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
908 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
910 Polo (Closes: #372497).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
912 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
915 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
916 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
917 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
919 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
921 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
923 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
925 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
926 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
927 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
928 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
929 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
930 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
932 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
934 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
937 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
938 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
939 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
942 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
944 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
946 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
949 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
950 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
951 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
952 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
953 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
954 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
955 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
956 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
957 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
959 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
960 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
962 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
963 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
964 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
965 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
966 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
968 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
969 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
974 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
977 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
979 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
980 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
981 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
982 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
983 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
984 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
985 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
986 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
987 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
988 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
989 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
990 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
991 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
992 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
993 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
994 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
995 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
997 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
998 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
999 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1000 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1001 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1002 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1003 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1005 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1006 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1007 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1008 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1010 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1011 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1012 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1013 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1014 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1015 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1016 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1017 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1018 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1019 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1020 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1023 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1025 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1026 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1027 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1028 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1029 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1030 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1031 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1032 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1033 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1034 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1035 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1037 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1039 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1043 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1044 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1045 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1047 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1048 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1049 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1051 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1052 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1053 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1054 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1057 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1058 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1059 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1060 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1061 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1062 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1064 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1066 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1068 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1070 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1071 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1072 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1074 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1077 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1079 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1082 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1083 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1084 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1086 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1087 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1089 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1091 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1093 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1097 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1098 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1099 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1100 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1101 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1102 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1103 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1104 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1105 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1108 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1109 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1112 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1113 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1115 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1116 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1117 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1119 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1120 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1121 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1122 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1125 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1126 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1127 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1129 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1130 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1131 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1134 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1135 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1136 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1138 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1139 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1140 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1142 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1143 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1144 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1145 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1146 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1147 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1148 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1149 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1153 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1157 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1158 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1159 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1160 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1161 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1162 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1163 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1164 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1166 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1167 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1168 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1169 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1170 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1171 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1172 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1173 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1174 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1175 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1176 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1177 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1179 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1180 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1181 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1185 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1186 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1189 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1190 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1191 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1193 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1194 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1195 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1196 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1197 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1198 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1200 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1201 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1203 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1204 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1205 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1206 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1207 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1208 Closes: #185943, #237049
1210 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1212 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1218 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1219 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1220 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1221 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1222 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1223 running. closes: Bug#187250
1224 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1225 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1226 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1227 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1228 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1229 user closes: Bug#176506
1231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1233 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1237 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1238 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1239 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1240 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1241 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1242 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1243 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1244 deb-building toolchain.
1245 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1246 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1247 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1248 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1249 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1250 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1251 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1252 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1253 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1254 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1255 sections about changelog files.
1257 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1258 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1259 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1260 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1261 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1262 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1264 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1265 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1266 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1267 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1268 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1269 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1270 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1271 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1272 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1273 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1274 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1275 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1276 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1277 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1278 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1279 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1280 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1281 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1282 for the restructuring
1284 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1286 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1291 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1292 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1293 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1294 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1295 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1296 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1298 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1299 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1300 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1301 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1302 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1303 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1304 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1306 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1307 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1308 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1309 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1311 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1313 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1317 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1318 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1319 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1320 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1321 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1323 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1324 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1325 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1326 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1328 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1329 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1330 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1331 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1332 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1333 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1334 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1335 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1336 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1337 offtopic stuff, too.
1338 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1339 script should start it, closes: #60979
1340 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1341 "should", closes: #170019
1342 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1343 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1344 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1345 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1346 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1347 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1348 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1349 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1352 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1354 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1358 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1359 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1360 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1361 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1362 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1363 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1364 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1365 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1367 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1368 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1369 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1370 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1371 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1372 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1373 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1374 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1375 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1377 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1378 file, closes: Bug#65764
1380 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1382 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1385 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1386 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1387 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1388 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1389 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1390 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1391 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1392 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1393 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1394 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1395 details. closes: Bug#133030
1396 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1397 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1398 parts of Bug#161455.
1400 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1402 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1405 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1406 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1407 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1408 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1409 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1410 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1411 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1412 not. closes: Bug#139820
1413 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1414 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1415 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1416 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1417 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1418 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1419 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1420 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1421 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1422 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1424 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1426 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1427 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1428 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1429 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1430 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1431 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1432 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1433 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1434 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1435 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1436 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1437 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1438 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1439 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1440 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1441 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1442 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1443 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1444 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1445 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1447 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1448 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1449 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1450 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1451 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1452 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1453 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1455 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1456 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1457 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1458 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1459 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1460 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1461 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1462 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1463 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1467 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1470 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1471 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1472 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1473 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1474 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1475 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1476 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1477 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1478 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1479 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1480 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1481 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1482 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1483 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1484 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1485 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1486 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1487 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1488 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1489 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1490 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1491 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1493 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1495 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1498 medium, high, emergency.
1499 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1500 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1501 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1502 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1503 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1506 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1507 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1508 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1510 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1511 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1512 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1513 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1514 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1515 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1516 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1519 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1521 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1524 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1525 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1526 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1528 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1529 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1530 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1531 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1532 debian/rules to do this
1533 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1534 patches are incorporated upstream
1535 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1536 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1537 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1538 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1539 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1540 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1542 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1543 system closes: Bug#91249
1544 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1545 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1546 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1547 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1548 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1549 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1550 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1551 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1552 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1553 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1554 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1555 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1556 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1558 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1560 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1563 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1564 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1565 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1567 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1568 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1569 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1571 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1574 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1576 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1579 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1580 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1581 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1582 package for the time being
1583 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1584 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1585 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1586 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1587 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1588 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1589 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1590 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1591 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1592 Build-Depends arch syntax
1593 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1595 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1596 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1598 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1599 from policy maintenance duties.
1600 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1601 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1603 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1605 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1609 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1611 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1614 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1615 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1616 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1617 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1618 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1619 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1620 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1621 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1622 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1623 minor version number for this
1624 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1625 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1626 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1627 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1628 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1629 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1630 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1631 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1632 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1634 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1636 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1639 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1640 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1641 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1642 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1644 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1646 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1647 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1648 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1649 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1650 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1651 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1652 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1653 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1654 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1655 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1656 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1657 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1658 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1659 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1660 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1661 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1664 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1666 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1669 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1671 * Document the Enhances relationship
1672 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1673 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1674 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1675 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1676 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1677 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1679 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1681 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1682 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1683 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1684 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1686 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1687 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1688 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1689 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1690 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1692 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1694 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1697 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1698 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1700 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1701 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1702 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1703 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1704 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1705 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1706 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1707 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1708 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1710 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1712 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1714 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1717 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1718 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1719 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1720 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1721 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1722 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1723 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1724 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1725 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1726 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1727 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1728 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1729 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1730 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1731 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1732 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1733 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1734 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1735 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1736 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1737 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1739 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1740 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1742 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1744 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1747 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1748 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1749 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1750 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1751 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1752 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1753 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1754 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1755 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1756 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1757 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1758 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1759 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1760 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1761 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1762 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1763 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1764 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1765 list closes: Bug#53756
1766 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1767 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1768 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1769 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1770 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1771 policy closes: Bug#53760
1772 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1773 policy closes: Bug#53761
1774 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1775 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1776 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1777 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1778 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1779 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1780 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1781 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1782 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1783 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1784 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1786 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1787 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1788 to install with older fileutils.
1789 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1790 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1791 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1792 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1794 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1795 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1797 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1799 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1802 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1804 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1806 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1809 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1811 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1814 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1817 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1819 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1821 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1823 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1826 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1828 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1830 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1833 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1834 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1835 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1836 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1837 directoried (closes: #41547)
1838 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1839 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1840 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1841 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1842 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1843 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1844 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1845 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1846 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1847 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1848 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1850 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1851 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1852 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1853 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1854 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1855 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1856 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1858 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1859 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1860 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1861 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1863 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1865 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1867 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1868 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1870 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1872 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1875 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1877 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1879 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1882 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1884 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1885 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1886 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1887 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1888 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1889 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1890 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1891 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1892 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1893 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1894 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1895 this closes: Bug#38612
1896 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1897 before. closes: Bug#40864
1899 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1901 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1904 officially uploaded.
1905 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1907 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1908 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1909 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1911 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1912 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1913 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1914 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1915 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1916 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1918 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1919 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1920 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1922 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1924 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1925 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1926 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1927 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1928 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1932 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1935 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1936 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1937 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1938 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1939 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1940 there). closes: Bug#34233
1941 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1942 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1943 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1944 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1945 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1947 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1949 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1952 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1953 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1954 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1957 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1958 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1959 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1960 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1961 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1964 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1965 number. closes: BUG#25911
1967 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1968 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1969 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1970 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1971 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1972 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1974 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1975 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1976 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1979 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1980 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1981 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1983 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1984 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1985 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1986 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1988 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1989 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1990 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1992 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1994 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1995 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1996 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1997 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1998 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1999 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2000 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2001 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2004 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2006 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2007 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2012 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2016 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2018 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2021 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2022 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2023 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2024 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2025 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2026 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2027 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2029 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2030 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2032 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2034 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2036 * non-maintainer release
2037 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2038 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2040 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2041 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2042 * no content changes
2043 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2045 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2047 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2051 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2053 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2057 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2058 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2059 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2061 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2062 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2064 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2065 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2066 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2067 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2069 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2070 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2071 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2072 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2073 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2074 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2075 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2077 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2078 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2079 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2082 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2083 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2084 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2086 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2087 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2088 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2090 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2091 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2093 * New version numbering scheme:
2095 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2096 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2097 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2100 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2101 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2102 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2103 differ between the manuals.
2105 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2106 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2107 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2108 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2110 * Packaging changes:
2112 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2113 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2115 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2117 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2119 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2123 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2124 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2125 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2127 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2128 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2131 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2132 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2133 file extension as the referenced file
2135 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2136 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2138 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2139 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2140 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2141 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2144 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2145 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2146 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2148 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2149 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2150 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2151 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2154 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2155 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2158 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2159 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2160 reasonable default configuration
2162 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2163 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2164 by all news servers and clients
2166 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2167 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2168 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2169 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2170 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2172 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2173 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2176 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2178 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2179 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2181 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2184 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2185 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2187 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2188 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2190 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2192 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2194 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2197 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2198 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2199 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2201 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2203 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2204 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2205 * Don't use debstd anymore
2207 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2209 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2212 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2213 contrib/non-free policy
2214 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2215 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2216 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2217 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2218 - new section about `Daemons'
2219 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2220 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2221 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2222 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2223 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2224 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2225 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2226 * SGML source code included in package
2227 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2229 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2231 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2234 - completely reworked structure
2235 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2236 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2237 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2238 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2239 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2240 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2241 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2242 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2243 - mention "orphaned packages"
2244 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2245 distributions' policy
2246 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2247 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2248 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2249 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2250 - added section about arch spec strings
2251 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2252 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2253 - added section about "menus"
2254 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2255 the new documentation policy soon
2256 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2257 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2259 - added section about editors and pagers
2260 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2261 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2262 - added section about device files
2263 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2264 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2265 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2267 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2268 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2269 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2270 - Added new section about obsolete names
2271 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2272 * Fixed package's description
2274 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2276 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2280 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2282 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2285 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2286 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2287 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2289 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2291 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2294 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2295 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2297 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2298 and upload it "byhand" too.
2300 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2302 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2306 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2307 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2308 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2309 functionality must not have the same name.
2310 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2311 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2312 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2313 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2314 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2315 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2316 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2318 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2319 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2320 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2321 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2322 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2323 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2324 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2325 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2328 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2330 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2332 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2334 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2335 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2336 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2337 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2338 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2341 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2343 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2345 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2347 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2348 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2349 description of deb file format.
2350 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2351 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2353 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2355 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2356 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2358 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2360 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2362 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2363 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2364 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2365 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2366 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2367 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2368 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2369 packages in section on Procedure
2370 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2371 a package maintainer
2372 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2373 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2374 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2376 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2377 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2378 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2379 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2380 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2381 on various shlib files
2382 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2383 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2384 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2386 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2388 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2390 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2391 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2392 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2394 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2395 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2396 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2397 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2398 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2400 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2402 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2404 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2406 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2408 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2409 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2410 compatibility go in contrib.
2412 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2413 instructions in policy manual.
2414 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2417 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2419 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2421 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2422 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2423 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2424 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2426 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2427 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2430 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2432 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2434 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2435 * More detail about changelog format names.
2437 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2438 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2442 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2444 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2446 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2448 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2450 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2452 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2454 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2456 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2457 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2458 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2460 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2462 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2464 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2466 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2468 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2472 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100