1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
14 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
15 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
16 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
19 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
20 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
21 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
26 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
27 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
30 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 28 May 2011 20:17:08 +0200
32 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
38 Closes: #459868, #581011
39 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
42 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
45 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
50 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
52 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
60 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
63 Closes: #501930, #593909
64 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
69 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
70 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
71 machine. (Closes: #591857)
72 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
73 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
74 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
75 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
76 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
77 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
78 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
79 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
80 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
81 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
83 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
84 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
85 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
86 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
87 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
88 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
89 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
90 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
91 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
92 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
93 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
94 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
95 than the version in oldstable.
96 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
97 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
98 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
99 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
100 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
101 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
102 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
103 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
104 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
105 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
106 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
107 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
108 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
109 package. (Closes: #609160)
111 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
113 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
121 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
122 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
126 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
127 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
131 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
132 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
137 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
146 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
147 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
151 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
152 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
154 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
156 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
157 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
159 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
161 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
167 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
173 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
178 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
179 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
183 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
188 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
189 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
193 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
194 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
198 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
199 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
203 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
205 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
206 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
207 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
208 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
209 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
210 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
211 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
212 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
213 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
215 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
216 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
217 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
218 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
219 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
220 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
222 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
224 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
230 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
233 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
234 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
235 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
236 and distribution license' (three times).
237 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
238 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
243 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
245 Proposed by Santiago Vila
246 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
253 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
258 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
259 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
263 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
265 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
266 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
270 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
271 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
274 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
277 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
280 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
282 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
283 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
286 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
288 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
290 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
304 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
305 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
309 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
315 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
316 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
317 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
320 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
321 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
326 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
327 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
332 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
333 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
334 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
335 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
336 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
337 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
338 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
339 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
340 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
341 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
342 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
343 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
344 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
345 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
346 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
347 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
348 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
349 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
350 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
351 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
352 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
353 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
354 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
355 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
356 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
357 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
358 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
359 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
360 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
361 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
362 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
364 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
366 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
368 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
372 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
374 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
375 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
379 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
382 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
383 Wording: Steve Langasek.
384 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
385 Seconded: Julien Cristau
386 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
389 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
390 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
391 Seconded: Russ Allbery
392 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
395 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
396 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery
399 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
400 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
401 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
402 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
403 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
404 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
405 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
406 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
409 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
410 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
411 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
412 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
413 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
414 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
415 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
417 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
418 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
419 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
420 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
421 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
422 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
423 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
426 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
427 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
428 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
429 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
430 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
432 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
435 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
436 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
439 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
440 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
443 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
445 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
453 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
457 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
463 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
466 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
467 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
475 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
476 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
481 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
485 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
495 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
496 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
500 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
501 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
502 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
503 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
504 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
505 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
506 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
507 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
508 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
509 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
510 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
511 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
512 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
513 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
514 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
516 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
517 Source field descriptions.
518 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
519 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
520 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
521 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
522 description says otherwise.
524 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
526 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
530 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
533 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
534 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
536 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
537 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
541 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
546 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
547 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
551 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
552 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
553 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
554 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
558 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
559 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
560 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
561 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
562 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
564 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
565 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
569 * Add myself to Uploaders.
572 * Add myself to Uploaders.
573 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
575 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
576 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
577 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
579 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
581 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
584 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
589 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
591 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
593 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
594 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
598 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
599 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
601 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
603 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
604 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
608 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
609 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
613 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
614 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
616 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
618 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
619 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
621 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
623 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
624 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
625 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
628 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
629 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
633 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
637 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
639 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
640 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
641 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
642 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
643 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
644 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
645 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
646 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
647 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
648 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
649 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
650 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
651 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
652 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
653 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
654 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
655 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
656 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
657 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
658 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
659 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
660 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
661 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
662 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
663 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
664 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
665 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
666 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
667 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
668 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
670 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
671 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
672 links was completed long ago.
673 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
675 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
677 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
680 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
682 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
684 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
687 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
688 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
689 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
690 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
691 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
692 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
693 Millan (Closes: #209008).
694 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
695 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
697 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
699 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
701 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
702 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
703 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
704 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
705 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
706 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
707 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
709 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
710 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
711 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
712 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
714 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
715 Küster (Closes: #403391).
716 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
717 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
718 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
719 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
720 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
725 Closes: #186700, #458910
726 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
727 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
730 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
731 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
732 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
733 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
734 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
735 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
736 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
737 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
739 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
740 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
742 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
743 * Add an md5sums control file.
744 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
745 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
746 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
747 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
748 currently part of policy.
749 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
750 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
751 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
754 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
756 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
759 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
760 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
761 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
762 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
763 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
764 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
765 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
766 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
767 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
769 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
770 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
771 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
772 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
773 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
775 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
777 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
778 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
779 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
781 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
782 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
783 list?" (Closes: #412634).
784 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
785 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
786 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
787 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
788 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
789 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
790 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
791 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
792 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
793 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
794 debconf specification.
795 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
796 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
798 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
800 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
803 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
805 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
806 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
808 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
811 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
812 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
813 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
814 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
816 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
817 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
818 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
819 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
820 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
821 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
822 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
823 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
824 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
825 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
826 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
827 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
828 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
829 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
830 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
836 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
837 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
838 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
840 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
841 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
842 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
844 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
846 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
849 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
850 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
852 Polo (Closes: #372497).
853 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
854 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
856 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
857 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
858 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
859 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
861 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
863 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
865 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
867 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
868 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
869 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
870 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
871 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
872 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
876 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
879 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
880 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
881 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
884 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
886 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
888 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
891 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
892 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
893 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
894 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
895 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
896 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
897 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
898 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
899 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
901 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
902 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
904 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
905 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
906 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
908 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
910 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
911 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
914 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
916 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
919 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
921 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
922 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
923 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
924 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
925 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
926 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
927 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
928 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
929 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
930 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
931 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
932 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
933 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
934 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
935 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
936 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
937 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
939 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
940 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
941 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
942 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
943 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
944 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
945 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
947 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
948 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
949 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
950 Hess (Closes: #362247).
951 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
952 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
953 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
954 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
955 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
956 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
957 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
958 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
959 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
960 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
961 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
962 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
964 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
965 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
968 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
970 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
971 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
972 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
973 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
974 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
975 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
976 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
977 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
979 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
981 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
985 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
986 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
987 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
989 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
990 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
991 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
993 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
994 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
995 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
999 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1001 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1002 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1004 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1006 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1008 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1010 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1011 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1012 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1013 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1014 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1015 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1016 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1019 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1021 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1024 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1025 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1026 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1028 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1029 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1031 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1033 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1035 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1039 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1040 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1041 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1042 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1043 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1044 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1045 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1046 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1047 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1049 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1050 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1051 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1054 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1055 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1057 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1058 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1059 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1061 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1062 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1063 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1064 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1067 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1068 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1069 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1070 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1071 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1072 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1073 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1076 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1077 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1078 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1080 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1081 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1082 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1083 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1084 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1085 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1086 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1087 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1088 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1089 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1090 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1091 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1093 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1095 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1099 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1100 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1101 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1102 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1103 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1104 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1105 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1106 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1108 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1109 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1110 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1111 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1112 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1113 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1114 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1115 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1116 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1117 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1118 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1119 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1121 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1122 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1123 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1127 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1128 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1131 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1132 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1133 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1135 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1136 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1137 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1138 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1139 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1140 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1142 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1143 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1145 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1146 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1147 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1148 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1149 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1150 Closes: #185943, #237049
1152 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1154 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1160 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1161 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1162 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1163 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1164 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1165 running. closes: Bug#187250
1166 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1167 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1168 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1169 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1170 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1171 user closes: Bug#176506
1173 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1175 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1179 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1180 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1181 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1182 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1183 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1184 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1185 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1186 deb-building toolchain.
1187 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1188 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1189 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1190 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1191 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1192 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1193 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1194 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1195 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1196 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1197 sections about changelog files.
1199 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1200 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1201 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1202 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1203 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1204 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1206 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1207 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1208 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1209 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1210 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1211 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1212 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1213 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1214 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1215 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1216 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1217 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1218 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1219 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1220 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1221 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1222 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1223 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1224 for the restructuring
1226 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1228 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1233 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1234 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1235 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1236 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1237 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1238 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1240 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1241 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1242 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1243 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1244 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1245 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1246 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1248 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1249 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1250 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1251 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1253 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1255 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1259 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1260 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1261 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1262 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1263 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1265 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1266 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1267 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1268 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1270 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1271 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1272 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1273 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1274 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1275 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1276 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1277 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1278 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1279 offtopic stuff, too.
1280 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1281 script should start it, closes: #60979
1282 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1283 "should", closes: #170019
1284 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1285 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1286 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1287 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1288 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1289 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1290 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1291 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1294 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1296 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1300 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1301 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1302 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1303 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1304 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1305 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1306 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1307 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1309 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1310 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1311 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1312 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1313 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1314 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1315 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1316 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1317 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1319 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1320 file, closes: Bug#65764
1322 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1324 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1327 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1328 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1329 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1330 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1331 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1332 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1333 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1334 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1335 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1336 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1337 details. closes: Bug#133030
1338 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1339 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1340 parts of Bug#161455.
1342 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1344 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1347 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1348 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1349 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1350 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1351 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1352 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1353 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1354 not. closes: Bug#139820
1355 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1356 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1357 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1358 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1359 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1360 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1361 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1362 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1363 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1364 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1366 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1368 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1369 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1370 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1371 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1372 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1373 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1374 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1375 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1376 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1377 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1378 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1379 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1380 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1381 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1382 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1383 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1384 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1385 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1386 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1387 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1389 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1390 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1391 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1392 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1393 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1394 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1395 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1397 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1398 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1399 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1400 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1401 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1402 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1403 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1404 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1405 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1407 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1409 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1412 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1413 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1414 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1415 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1416 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1417 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1418 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1419 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1420 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1421 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1422 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1423 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1424 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1425 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1426 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1427 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1428 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1429 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1430 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1431 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1432 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1433 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1435 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1437 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1440 medium, high, emergency.
1441 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1442 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1443 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1444 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1445 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1448 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1449 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1450 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1452 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1453 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1454 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1455 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1456 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1457 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1458 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1463 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1466 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1467 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1468 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1470 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1471 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1472 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1473 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1474 debian/rules to do this
1475 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1476 patches are incorporated upstream
1477 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1478 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1479 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1480 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1481 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1482 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1484 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1485 system closes: Bug#91249
1486 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1487 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1488 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1489 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1490 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1491 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1492 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1493 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1494 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1495 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1496 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1497 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1498 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1500 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1502 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1505 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1506 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1507 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1509 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1510 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1511 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1513 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1516 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1518 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1521 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1522 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1523 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1524 package for the time being
1525 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1526 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1527 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1528 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1529 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1530 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1531 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1532 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1533 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1534 Build-Depends arch syntax
1535 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1537 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1538 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1540 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1541 from policy maintenance duties.
1542 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1543 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1545 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1547 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1551 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1553 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1556 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1557 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1558 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1559 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1560 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1561 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1562 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1563 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1564 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1565 minor version number for this
1566 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1567 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1568 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1569 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1570 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1571 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1572 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1573 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1574 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1576 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1578 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1581 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1582 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1583 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1584 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1586 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1588 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1589 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1590 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1591 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1592 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1593 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1594 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1595 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1596 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1597 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1598 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1599 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1600 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1601 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1602 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1603 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1606 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1608 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1611 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1613 * Document the Enhances relationship
1614 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1615 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1616 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1617 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1618 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1619 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1621 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1623 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1624 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1625 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1626 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1628 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1629 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1630 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1631 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1632 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1634 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1636 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1639 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1640 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1642 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1643 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1644 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1645 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1646 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1647 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1648 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1649 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1650 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1652 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1654 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1656 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1659 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1660 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1661 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1662 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1663 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1664 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1665 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1666 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1667 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1668 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1669 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1670 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1671 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1672 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1673 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1674 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1675 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1676 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1677 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1678 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1679 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1681 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1682 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1684 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1686 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1689 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1690 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1691 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1692 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1693 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1694 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1695 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1696 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1697 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1698 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1699 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1700 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1701 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1702 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1703 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1704 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1705 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1706 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1707 list closes: Bug#53756
1708 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1709 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1710 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1711 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1712 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1713 policy closes: Bug#53760
1714 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1715 policy closes: Bug#53761
1716 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1717 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1718 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1719 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1720 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1721 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1722 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1723 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1724 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1725 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1726 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1728 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1729 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1730 to install with older fileutils.
1731 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1732 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1733 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1734 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1736 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1737 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1739 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1741 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1744 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1746 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1748 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1751 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1753 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1756 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1759 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1761 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1763 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1765 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1768 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1770 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1772 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1775 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1776 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1777 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1778 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1779 directoried (closes: #41547)
1780 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1781 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1782 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1783 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1784 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1785 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1786 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1787 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1788 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1789 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1790 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1792 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1793 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1794 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1795 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1796 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1797 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1798 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1800 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1801 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1802 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1803 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1805 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1807 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1809 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1810 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1812 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1814 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1817 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1819 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1821 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1824 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1826 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1827 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1828 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1829 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1830 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1831 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1832 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1833 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1834 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1835 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1836 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1837 this closes: Bug#38612
1838 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1839 before. closes: Bug#40864
1841 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1843 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1846 officially uploaded.
1847 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1849 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1850 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1851 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1853 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1854 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1855 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1856 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1857 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1858 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1860 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1861 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1862 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1864 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1866 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1867 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1868 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1869 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1870 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1872 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1874 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1877 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1878 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1879 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1880 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1881 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1882 there). closes: Bug#34233
1883 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1884 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1885 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1886 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1887 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1889 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1891 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1894 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1895 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1896 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1899 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1900 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1901 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1902 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1903 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1906 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1907 number. closes: BUG#25911
1909 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1910 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1911 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1912 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1913 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1914 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1916 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1917 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1918 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1921 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1922 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1923 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1925 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1926 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1927 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1928 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1930 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1931 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1932 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1934 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1936 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1937 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1938 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1939 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1940 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1941 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1942 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1943 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1946 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1948 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1949 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1952 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1954 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1958 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1960 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1963 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1964 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1965 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1966 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1967 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1968 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1969 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1971 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1972 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1974 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1976 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1978 * non-maintainer release
1979 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1980 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1982 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1983 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1984 * no content changes
1985 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1987 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1989 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1993 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1995 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1999 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2000 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2001 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2003 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2004 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2006 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2007 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2008 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2009 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2011 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2012 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2013 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2014 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2015 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2016 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2017 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2019 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2020 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2021 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2024 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2025 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2026 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2028 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2029 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2030 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2032 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2033 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2035 * New version numbering scheme:
2037 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2038 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2039 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2042 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2043 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2044 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2045 differ between the manuals.
2047 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2048 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2049 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2050 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2052 * Packaging changes:
2054 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2055 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2057 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2059 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2061 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2065 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2066 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2067 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2069 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2070 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2073 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2074 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2075 file extension as the referenced file
2077 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2078 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2080 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2081 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2082 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2083 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2086 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2087 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2088 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2090 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2091 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2092 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2093 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2096 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2097 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2100 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2101 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2102 reasonable default configuration
2104 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2105 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2106 by all news servers and clients
2108 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2109 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2110 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2111 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2112 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2114 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2115 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2118 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2120 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2121 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2123 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2126 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2127 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2129 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2130 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2132 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2134 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2136 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2139 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2140 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2141 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2143 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2145 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2146 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2147 * Don't use debstd anymore
2149 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2151 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2154 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2155 contrib/non-free policy
2156 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2157 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2158 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2159 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2160 - new section about `Daemons'
2161 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2162 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2163 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2164 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2165 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2166 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2167 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2168 * SGML source code included in package
2169 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2171 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2173 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2176 - completely reworked structure
2177 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2178 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2179 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2180 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2181 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2182 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2183 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2184 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2185 - mention "orphaned packages"
2186 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2187 distributions' policy
2188 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2189 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2190 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2191 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2192 - added section about arch spec strings
2193 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2194 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2195 - added section about "menus"
2196 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2197 the new documentation policy soon
2198 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2199 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2201 - added section about editors and pagers
2202 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2203 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2204 - added section about device files
2205 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2206 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2207 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2209 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2210 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2211 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2212 - Added new section about obsolete names
2213 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2214 * Fixed package's description
2216 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2218 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2222 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2224 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2227 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2228 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2229 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2231 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2233 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2236 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2237 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2239 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2240 and upload it "byhand" too.
2242 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2244 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2248 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2249 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2250 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2251 functionality must not have the same name.
2252 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2253 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2254 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2255 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2256 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2257 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2258 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2260 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2261 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2262 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2263 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2264 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2265 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2266 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2267 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2270 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2272 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2274 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2276 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2277 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2278 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2279 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2280 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2283 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2285 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2287 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2289 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2290 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2291 description of deb file format.
2292 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2293 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2295 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2297 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2298 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2300 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2302 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2304 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2305 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2306 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2307 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2308 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2309 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2310 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2311 packages in section on Procedure
2312 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2313 a package maintainer
2314 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2315 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2316 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2318 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2319 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2320 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2321 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2322 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2323 on various shlib files
2324 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2325 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2326 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2328 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2330 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2332 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2333 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2334 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2336 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2337 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2338 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2339 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2340 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2342 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2344 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2346 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2348 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2350 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2351 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2352 compatibility go in contrib.
2354 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2355 instructions in policy manual.
2356 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2359 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2361 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2363 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2364 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2365 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2366 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2368 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2369 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2372 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2374 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2376 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2377 * More detail about changelog format names.
2379 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2380 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2384 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2386 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2388 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2390 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2392 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2394 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2396 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2398 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2399 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2400 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2402 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2404 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2406 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2408 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2410 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2414 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100