1 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
8 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
9 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
13 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
14 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
18 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
19 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
22 Seconded: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
23 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
24 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
26 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
27 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
32 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
33 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
35 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
38 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
42 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
43 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
47 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
48 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
49 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
50 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
51 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
52 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
53 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
54 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
55 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
56 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
57 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
59 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
61 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
65 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
68 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
69 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
72 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
76 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
81 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
82 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
86 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
87 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
88 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
89 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
93 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
94 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
95 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
96 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
97 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
99 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
100 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
104 * Add myself to Uploaders.
107 * Add myself to Uploaders.
108 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
110 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
111 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
112 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
114 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
116 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
119 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
124 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
126 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
128 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
133 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
136 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
138 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
144 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
149 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
151 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
156 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
159 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
160 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
163 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
164 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
168 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
172 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
174 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
175 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
176 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
177 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
178 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
179 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
180 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
181 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
182 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
183 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
184 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
185 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
186 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
187 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
188 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
189 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
190 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
191 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
192 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
193 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
194 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
195 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
196 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
197 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
198 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
199 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
200 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
201 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
202 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
203 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
205 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
206 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
207 links was completed long ago.
208 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
210 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
212 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
215 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
217 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
219 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
222 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
223 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
224 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
225 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
226 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
227 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
228 Millan (Closes: #209008).
229 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
230 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
232 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
234 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
236 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
237 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
238 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
239 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
240 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
241 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
242 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
244 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
245 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
246 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
247 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
249 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
250 Küster (Closes: #403391).
251 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
252 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
253 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
254 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
255 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
260 Closes: #186700, #458910
261 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
262 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
266 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
267 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
268 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
269 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
270 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
271 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
272 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
274 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
275 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
277 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
278 * Add an md5sums control file.
279 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
280 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
281 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
282 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
283 currently part of policy.
284 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
285 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
286 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
289 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
291 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
294 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
295 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
296 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
297 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
298 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
299 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
300 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
301 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
302 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
304 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
305 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
306 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
307 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
308 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
310 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
312 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
313 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
314 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
316 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
317 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
318 list?" (Closes: #412634).
319 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
320 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
321 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
322 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
323 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
324 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
325 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
326 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
327 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
328 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
329 debconf specification.
330 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
331 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
333 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
335 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
338 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
340 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
341 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
346 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
347 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
348 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
349 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
351 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
352 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
353 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
354 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
355 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
356 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
357 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
358 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
359 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
360 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
361 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
362 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
363 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
365 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
371 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
372 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
373 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
375 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
376 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
377 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
379 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
381 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
384 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
385 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
386 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
387 Polo (Closes: #372497).
388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
389 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
392 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
393 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
394 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
396 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
398 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
400 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
402 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
403 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
404 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
405 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
406 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
407 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
409 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
411 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
414 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
415 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
416 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
419 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
421 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
423 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
426 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
427 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
428 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
429 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
430 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
431 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
432 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
433 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
434 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
436 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
437 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
439 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
440 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
441 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
443 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
445 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
446 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
449 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
451 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
454 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
456 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
457 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
458 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
459 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
460 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
461 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
462 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
463 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
464 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
465 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
466 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
467 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
468 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
469 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
470 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
471 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
472 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
473 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
474 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
475 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
476 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
477 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
478 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
479 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
480 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
482 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
483 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
484 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
485 Hess (Closes: #362247).
486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
487 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
488 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
489 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
490 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
491 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
492 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
493 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
494 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
495 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
496 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
497 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
499 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
500 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
502 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
503 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
504 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
505 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
506 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
507 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
508 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
509 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
510 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
511 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
512 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
514 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
516 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
520 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
522 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
523 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
524 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
525 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
526 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
527 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
528 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
529 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
530 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
531 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
533 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
534 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
535 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
536 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
537 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
539 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
541 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
542 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
543 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
544 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
545 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
547 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
548 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
549 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
551 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
554 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
556 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
559 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
560 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
561 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
563 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
564 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
565 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
566 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
568 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
570 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
574 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
575 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
576 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
577 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
578 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
579 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
580 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
581 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
582 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
584 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
585 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
586 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
588 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
589 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
590 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
591 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
592 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
593 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
594 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
596 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
597 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
598 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
599 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
601 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
602 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
603 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
604 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
605 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
606 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
607 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
608 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
610 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
611 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
612 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
613 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
614 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
615 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
616 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
617 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
618 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
619 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
620 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
621 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
622 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
623 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
624 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
625 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
626 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
628 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
630 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
633 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
634 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
635 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
636 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
637 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
638 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
639 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
640 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
641 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
643 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
644 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
645 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
646 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
647 this section. closes: Bug#248618
648 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
649 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
650 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
651 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
652 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
653 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
654 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
656 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
657 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
658 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
661 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
662 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
663 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
666 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
667 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
668 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
670 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
671 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
672 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
673 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
674 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
675 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
677 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
678 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
680 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
681 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
682 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
683 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
684 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
685 Closes: #185943, #237049
687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
689 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
695 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
696 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
697 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
698 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
699 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
700 running. closes: Bug#187250
701 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
702 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
703 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
704 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
705 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
706 user closes: Bug#176506
708 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
710 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
714 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
715 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
716 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
717 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
718 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
719 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
720 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
721 deb-building toolchain.
722 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
723 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
724 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
725 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
726 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
727 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
728 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
729 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
730 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
731 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
732 sections about changelog files.
734 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
735 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
736 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
737 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
738 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
739 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
741 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
742 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
743 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
744 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
745 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
746 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
747 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
748 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
749 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
750 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
751 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
752 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
753 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
754 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
755 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
756 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
757 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
758 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
759 for the restructuring
761 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
763 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
768 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
769 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
770 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
771 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
772 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
773 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
775 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
776 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
777 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
778 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
779 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
780 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
781 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
783 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
784 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
785 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
786 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
788 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
790 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
794 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
795 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
796 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
797 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
798 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
800 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
801 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
802 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
803 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
805 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
806 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
807 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
808 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
809 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
810 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
811 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
812 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
813 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
815 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
816 script should start it, closes: #60979
817 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
818 "should", closes: #170019
819 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
820 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
821 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
822 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
823 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
824 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
825 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
826 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
829 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
831 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
835 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
836 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
837 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
838 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
839 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
840 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
841 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
842 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
844 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
845 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
846 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
847 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
848 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
849 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
850 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
851 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
852 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
854 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
855 file, closes: Bug#65764
857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
859 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
862 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
863 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
864 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
865 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
866 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
867 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
868 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
869 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
870 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
871 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
872 details. closes: Bug#133030
873 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
874 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
877 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
879 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
882 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
883 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
884 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
885 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
886 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
887 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
888 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
889 not. closes: Bug#139820
890 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
891 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
892 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
893 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
894 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
895 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
896 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
897 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
898 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
899 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
901 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
903 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
904 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
905 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
906 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
907 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
908 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
909 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
910 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
911 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
912 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
913 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
914 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
915 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
916 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
917 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
918 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
919 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
920 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
921 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
922 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
924 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
925 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
926 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
927 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
928 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
929 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
930 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
932 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
933 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
934 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
935 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
936 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
937 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
938 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
939 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
940 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
942 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
944 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
947 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
948 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
949 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
950 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
951 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
952 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
953 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
954 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
955 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
956 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
957 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
958 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
959 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
960 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
961 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
962 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
963 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
964 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
965 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
966 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
967 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
968 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
970 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
972 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
975 medium, high, emergency.
976 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
977 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
978 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
979 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
980 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
983 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
984 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
985 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
987 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
988 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
989 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
990 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
991 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
992 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
993 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
996 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
998 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1001 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1002 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1003 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1005 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1006 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1007 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1008 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1009 debian/rules to do this
1010 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1011 patches are incorporated upstream
1012 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1013 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1014 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1015 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1016 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1017 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1019 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1020 system closes: Bug#91249
1021 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1022 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1023 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1024 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1025 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1026 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1027 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1028 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1029 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1030 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1031 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1032 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1033 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1035 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1037 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1040 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1041 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1042 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1044 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1045 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1046 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1048 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1051 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1053 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1056 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1057 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1058 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1059 package for the time being
1060 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1061 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1062 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1063 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1064 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1065 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1066 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1067 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1068 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1069 Build-Depends arch syntax
1070 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1072 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1073 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1075 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1076 from policy maintenance duties.
1077 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1078 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1080 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1082 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1086 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1088 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1091 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1092 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1093 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1094 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1095 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1096 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1097 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1098 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1099 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1100 minor version number for this
1101 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1102 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1103 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1104 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1105 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1106 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1107 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1108 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1109 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1111 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1113 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1116 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1117 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1118 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1119 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1121 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1123 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1124 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1125 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1126 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1127 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1128 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1129 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1130 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1131 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1132 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1133 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1134 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1135 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1136 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1137 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1138 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1141 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1143 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1146 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1148 * Document the Enhances relationship
1149 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1150 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1151 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1152 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1153 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1154 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1156 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1158 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1159 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1160 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1161 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1163 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1164 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1165 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1166 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1167 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1169 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1171 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1174 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1175 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1177 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1178 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1179 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1180 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1181 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1182 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1183 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1184 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1185 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1187 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1189 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1191 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1194 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1195 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1196 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1197 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1198 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1199 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1200 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1201 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1202 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1203 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1204 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1205 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1206 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1207 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1208 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1209 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1210 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1211 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1212 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1213 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1214 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1216 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1217 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1219 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1221 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1224 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1225 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1226 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1227 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1228 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1229 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1230 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1231 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1232 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1233 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1234 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1235 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1236 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1237 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1238 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1239 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1240 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1241 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1242 list closes: Bug#53756
1243 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1244 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1245 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1246 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1247 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1248 policy closes: Bug#53760
1249 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1250 policy closes: Bug#53761
1251 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1252 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1253 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1254 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1255 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1256 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1257 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1258 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1259 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1260 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1261 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1263 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1264 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1265 to install with older fileutils.
1266 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1267 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1268 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1269 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1271 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1272 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1274 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1276 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1279 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1283 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1286 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1288 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1291 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1294 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1296 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1298 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1300 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1303 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1305 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1307 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1310 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1311 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1312 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1313 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1314 directoried (closes: #41547)
1315 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1316 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1317 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1318 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1319 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1320 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1321 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1322 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1323 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1324 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1325 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1327 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1328 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1329 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1330 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1331 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1332 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1333 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1335 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1336 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1337 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1338 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1340 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1342 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1344 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1345 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1347 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1349 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1352 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1354 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1356 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1359 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1361 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1362 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1363 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1364 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1365 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1366 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1367 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1368 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1369 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1370 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1371 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1372 this closes: Bug#38612
1373 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1374 before. closes: Bug#40864
1376 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1378 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1381 officially uploaded.
1382 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1384 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1385 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1386 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1388 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1389 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1390 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1391 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1392 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1393 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1395 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1396 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1397 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1399 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1401 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1402 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1403 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1404 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1405 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1407 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1409 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1412 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1413 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1414 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1415 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1416 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1417 there). closes: Bug#34233
1418 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1419 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1420 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1421 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1422 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1424 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1426 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1429 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1430 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1431 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1434 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1435 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1436 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1437 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1438 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1441 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1442 number. closes: BUG#25911
1444 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1445 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1446 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1447 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1448 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1449 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1451 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1452 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1453 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1456 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1457 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1458 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1460 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1461 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1462 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1463 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1465 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1466 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1467 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1469 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1471 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1472 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1473 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1474 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1475 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1476 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1477 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1478 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1481 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1483 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1484 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1487 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1489 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1493 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1495 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1498 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1499 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1500 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1501 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1502 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1503 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1504 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1506 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1507 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1509 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1511 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1513 * non-maintainer release
1514 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1515 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1517 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1518 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1519 * no content changes
1520 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1522 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1524 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1528 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1530 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1534 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1535 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1536 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1538 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1539 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1541 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1542 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1543 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1544 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1546 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1547 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1548 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1549 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1550 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1551 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1552 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1554 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1555 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1556 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1559 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1560 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1561 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1563 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1564 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1565 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1567 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1568 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1570 * New version numbering scheme:
1572 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1573 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1574 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1577 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1578 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1579 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1580 differ between the manuals.
1582 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1583 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1584 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1585 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1587 * Packaging changes:
1589 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1590 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1592 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1594 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1596 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1600 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1601 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1602 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1604 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1605 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1608 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1609 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1610 file extension as the referenced file
1612 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1613 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1615 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1616 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1617 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1618 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1621 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1622 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1623 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1625 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1626 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1627 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1628 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1631 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1632 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1635 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1636 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1637 reasonable default configuration
1639 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1640 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1641 by all news servers and clients
1643 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1644 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1645 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1646 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1647 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1649 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1650 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1653 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1655 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1656 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1658 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1661 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1662 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1664 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1665 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1667 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1669 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1671 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1674 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1675 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1676 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1678 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1680 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1681 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1682 * Don't use debstd anymore
1684 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1686 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1689 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1690 contrib/non-free policy
1691 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1692 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1693 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1694 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1695 - new section about `Daemons'
1696 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1697 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1698 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1699 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1700 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1701 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1702 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1703 * SGML source code included in package
1704 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1706 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1708 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1711 - completely reworked structure
1712 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1713 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1714 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1715 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1716 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1717 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1718 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1719 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1720 - mention "orphaned packages"
1721 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1722 distributions' policy
1723 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1724 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1725 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1726 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1727 - added section about arch spec strings
1728 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1729 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1730 - added section about "menus"
1731 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1732 the new documentation policy soon
1733 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1734 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1736 - added section about editors and pagers
1737 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1738 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1739 - added section about device files
1740 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1741 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1742 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1744 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1745 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1746 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1747 - Added new section about obsolete names
1748 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1749 * Fixed package's description
1751 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1753 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1757 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1759 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1762 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1763 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1764 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1766 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1768 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1771 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1772 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1774 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1775 and upload it "byhand" too.
1777 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1779 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1783 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1784 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1785 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1786 functionality must not have the same name.
1787 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1788 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1789 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1790 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1791 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1792 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1793 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1795 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1796 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1797 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1798 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1799 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1800 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1801 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1802 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1805 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1807 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1809 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1811 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1812 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1813 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1814 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1815 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1818 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1820 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1822 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1824 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1825 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1826 description of deb file format.
1827 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1828 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1830 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1832 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1833 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1835 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1837 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1839 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1840 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1841 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1842 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1843 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1844 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1845 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1846 packages in section on Procedure
1847 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1848 a package maintainer
1849 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1850 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1851 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1853 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1854 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1855 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1856 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1857 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1858 on various shlib files
1859 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1860 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1861 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1863 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1865 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1867 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1868 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1869 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1871 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1872 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1873 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1874 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1875 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1877 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1879 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1881 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1883 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1885 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1886 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1887 compatibility go in contrib.
1889 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1890 instructions in policy manual.
1891 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1894 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1896 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1898 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1899 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1900 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1901 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1903 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1904 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1907 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1909 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1911 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1912 * More detail about changelog format names.
1914 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1915 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1919 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1921 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1923 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1925 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1927 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1929 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1931 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1933 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1934 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1935 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1937 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1939 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1941 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1943 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1945 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1949 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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