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>
27 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 20:31:54 +0200
29 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
32 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
35 Closes: #459868, #581011
36 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
37 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
39 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
41 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
42 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
47 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
49 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
57 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
60 Closes: #501930, #593909
61 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
66 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
67 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
68 machine. (Closes: #591857)
69 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
70 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
71 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
72 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
73 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
74 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
75 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
76 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
77 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
78 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
80 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
81 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
82 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
83 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
84 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
85 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
86 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
87 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
88 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
89 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
90 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
91 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
92 than the version in oldstable.
93 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
94 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
95 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
96 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
97 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
98 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
99 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
100 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
101 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
102 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
103 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
104 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
105 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
106 package. (Closes: #609160)
108 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
110 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
118 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
124 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
128 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
133 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
138 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
144 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
149 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
151 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
156 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
158 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
165 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
170 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
171 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
175 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
176 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
181 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
185 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
190 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
191 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
195 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
200 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
202 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
203 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
204 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
205 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
206 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
207 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
208 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
209 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
210 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
212 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
213 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
214 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
215 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
216 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
217 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
219 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
221 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
227 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
230 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
231 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
232 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
233 and distribution license' (three times).
234 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
235 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
240 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
242 Proposed by Santiago Vila
243 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
250 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
251 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
256 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
257 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
260 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
262 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
263 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
267 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
268 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
271 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
273 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
274 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
277 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
283 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
287 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
290 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
296 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
297 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
301 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
302 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
306 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
312 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
313 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
314 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
317 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
318 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
323 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
324 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
328 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
329 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
330 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
331 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
332 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
333 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
334 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
335 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
336 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
337 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
338 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
339 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
340 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
341 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
342 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
343 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
344 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
345 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
346 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
347 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
348 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
349 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
350 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
351 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
352 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
353 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
354 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
355 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
356 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
357 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
358 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
359 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
361 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
363 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
365 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
369 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
371 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
372 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
376 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
379 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
380 Wording: Steve Langasek.
381 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
382 Seconded: Julien Cristau
383 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
386 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
387 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
388 Seconded: Russ Allbery
389 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
392 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
393 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
394 Seconded: Russ Allbery
396 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
397 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
398 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
399 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
400 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
401 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
402 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
403 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
406 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
407 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
408 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
409 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
410 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
411 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
412 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
414 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
415 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
416 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
417 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
418 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
419 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
420 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
423 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
424 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
425 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
426 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
427 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
429 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
432 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
436 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
437 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
440 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
442 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
450 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
454 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
459 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
460 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
463 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
464 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
478 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
482 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
483 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
487 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
488 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
492 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
493 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
497 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
498 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
499 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
500 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
501 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
502 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
503 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
504 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
505 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
506 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
507 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
508 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
509 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
510 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
511 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
513 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
514 Source field descriptions.
515 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
516 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
517 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
518 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
519 description says otherwise.
521 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
523 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
527 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
530 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
531 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
533 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
534 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
538 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
539 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
543 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
544 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
548 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
549 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
550 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
551 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
555 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
556 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
557 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
558 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
559 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
561 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
562 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
566 * Add myself to Uploaders.
569 * Add myself to Uploaders.
570 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
572 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
573 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
574 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
576 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
578 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
581 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
586 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
588 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
595 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
598 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
600 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
605 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
611 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
613 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
615 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
616 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
618 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
620 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
621 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
622 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
625 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
626 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
630 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
631 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
634 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
636 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
637 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
638 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
639 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
640 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
641 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
642 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
643 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
644 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
645 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
646 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
647 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
648 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
649 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
650 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
651 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
652 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
653 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
654 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
655 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
656 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
657 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
658 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
659 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
660 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
661 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
662 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
663 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
664 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
665 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
667 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
668 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
669 links was completed long ago.
670 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
672 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
674 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
677 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
679 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
681 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
684 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
685 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
686 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
687 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
688 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
689 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
690 Millan (Closes: #209008).
691 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
692 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
694 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
696 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
698 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
699 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
700 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
701 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
702 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
703 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
704 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
706 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
707 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
708 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
709 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
711 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
712 Küster (Closes: #403391).
713 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
714 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
715 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
716 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
717 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
718 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
722 Closes: #186700, #458910
723 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
724 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
728 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
729 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
730 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
731 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
732 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
733 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
734 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
736 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
737 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
739 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
740 * Add an md5sums control file.
741 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
742 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
743 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
744 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
745 currently part of policy.
746 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
747 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
748 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
751 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
753 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
756 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
757 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
758 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
759 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
760 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
761 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
762 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
763 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
764 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
765 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
766 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
767 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
768 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
769 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
770 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
772 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
774 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
775 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
776 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
778 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
779 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
780 list?" (Closes: #412634).
781 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
782 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
783 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
784 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
785 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
786 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
787 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
788 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
789 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
790 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
791 debconf specification.
792 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
793 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
795 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
797 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
800 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
802 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
803 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
808 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
809 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
810 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
811 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
813 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
814 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
815 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
816 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
817 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
818 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
819 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
820 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
821 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
822 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
823 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
824 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
825 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
827 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
830 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
832 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
833 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
834 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
835 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
836 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
837 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
838 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
839 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
841 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
843 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
846 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
847 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
849 Polo (Closes: #372497).
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
851 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
853 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
854 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
855 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
856 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
858 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
860 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
862 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
864 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
865 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
866 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
867 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
868 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
869 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
871 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
873 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
876 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
877 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
878 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
881 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
885 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
888 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
889 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
890 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
891 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
892 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
893 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
894 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
895 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
896 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
898 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
899 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
900 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
901 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
902 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
903 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
904 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
905 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
907 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
908 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
911 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
913 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
916 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
918 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
919 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
920 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
921 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
922 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
923 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
924 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
925 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
926 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
927 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
928 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
929 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
930 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
931 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
932 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
933 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
934 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
936 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
937 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
938 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
939 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
940 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
941 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
942 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
944 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
945 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
946 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
947 Hess (Closes: #362247).
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
949 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
950 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
951 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
952 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
953 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
954 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
955 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
956 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
957 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
958 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
959 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
962 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
964 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
965 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
967 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
968 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
969 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
970 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
971 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
972 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
973 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
974 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
976 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
978 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
982 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
984 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
985 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
986 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
987 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
988 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
989 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
990 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
991 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
992 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
996 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
998 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
999 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1001 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1003 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1005 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1006 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1007 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1009 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1010 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1011 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1013 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1018 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1021 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1022 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1023 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1025 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1026 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1027 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1028 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1030 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1032 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1036 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1037 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1038 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1039 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1041 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1042 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1043 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1044 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1047 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1048 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1051 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1052 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1054 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1055 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1056 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1058 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1059 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1060 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1061 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1064 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1065 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1066 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1068 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1069 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1070 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1072 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1073 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1074 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1075 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1077 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1078 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1079 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1080 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1081 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1082 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1083 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1084 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1085 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1086 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1087 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1088 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1090 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1092 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1096 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1097 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1098 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1099 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1100 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1101 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1102 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1103 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1105 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1106 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1107 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1108 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1109 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1110 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1111 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1112 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1113 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1114 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1115 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1116 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1118 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1119 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1120 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1124 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1125 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1128 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1129 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1130 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1132 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1133 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1134 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1135 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1136 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1137 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1139 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1140 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1142 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1143 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1144 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1145 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1146 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1147 Closes: #185943, #237049
1149 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1151 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1157 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1158 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1159 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1160 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1161 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1162 running. closes: Bug#187250
1163 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1164 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1165 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1166 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1167 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1168 user closes: Bug#176506
1170 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1172 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1176 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1177 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1178 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1179 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1180 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1181 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1182 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1183 deb-building toolchain.
1184 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1185 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1186 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1187 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1188 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1189 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1190 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1191 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1192 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1193 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1194 sections about changelog files.
1196 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1197 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1198 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1199 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1200 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1201 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1203 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1204 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1205 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1206 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1207 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1208 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1209 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1210 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1211 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1212 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1213 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1214 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1215 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1216 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1217 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1218 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1219 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1220 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1221 for the restructuring
1223 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1225 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1230 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1231 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1232 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1233 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1234 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1235 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1237 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1238 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1239 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1240 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1241 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1242 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1243 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1245 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1246 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1247 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1248 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1250 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1252 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1256 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1257 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1258 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1259 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1260 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1262 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1263 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1264 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1265 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1267 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1268 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1269 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1270 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1271 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1272 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1273 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1274 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1275 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1276 offtopic stuff, too.
1277 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1278 script should start it, closes: #60979
1279 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1280 "should", closes: #170019
1281 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1282 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1283 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1284 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1285 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1286 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1287 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1288 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1293 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1297 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1298 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1299 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1300 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1301 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1302 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1303 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1304 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1306 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1307 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1308 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1309 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1310 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1311 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1312 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1313 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1314 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1316 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1317 file, closes: Bug#65764
1319 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1321 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1324 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1325 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1326 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1327 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1328 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1329 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1330 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1331 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1332 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1333 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1334 details. closes: Bug#133030
1335 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1336 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1337 parts of Bug#161455.
1339 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1341 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1344 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1345 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1346 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1347 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1348 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1349 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1350 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1351 not. closes: Bug#139820
1352 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1353 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1354 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1355 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1356 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1357 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1358 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1359 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1360 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1361 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1363 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1365 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1366 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1367 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1368 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1369 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1370 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1371 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1372 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1373 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1374 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1375 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1376 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1377 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1378 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1379 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1380 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1381 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1382 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1383 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1384 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1386 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1387 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1388 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1389 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1390 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1391 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1392 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1394 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1395 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1396 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1397 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1398 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1399 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1400 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1401 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1402 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1404 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1406 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1409 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1410 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1411 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1412 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1413 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1414 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1415 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1416 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1417 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1418 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1419 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1420 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1421 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1422 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1423 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1424 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1425 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1426 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1427 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1428 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1429 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1430 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1432 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1434 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1437 medium, high, emergency.
1438 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1439 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1440 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1441 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1442 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1445 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1446 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1447 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1449 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1450 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1451 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1452 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1453 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1454 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1455 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1460 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1463 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1464 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1465 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1467 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1468 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1469 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1470 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1471 debian/rules to do this
1472 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1473 patches are incorporated upstream
1474 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1475 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1476 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1477 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1478 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1479 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1481 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1482 system closes: Bug#91249
1483 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1484 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1485 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1486 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1487 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1488 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1489 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1490 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1491 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1492 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1493 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1494 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1495 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1497 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1499 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1502 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1503 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1504 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1506 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1507 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1508 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1510 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1513 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1515 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1518 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1519 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1520 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1521 package for the time being
1522 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1523 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1524 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1525 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1526 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1527 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1528 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1529 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1530 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1531 Build-Depends arch syntax
1532 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1534 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1535 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1537 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1538 from policy maintenance duties.
1539 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1540 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1544 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1548 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1550 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1553 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1554 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1555 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1556 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1557 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1558 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1559 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1560 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1561 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1562 minor version number for this
1563 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1564 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1565 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1566 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1567 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1568 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1569 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1570 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1571 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1573 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1575 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1578 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1579 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1580 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1581 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1583 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1585 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1586 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1587 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1588 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1589 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1590 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1591 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1592 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1593 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1594 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1595 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1596 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1597 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1598 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1599 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1600 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1603 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1605 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1608 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1610 * Document the Enhances relationship
1611 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1612 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1613 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1614 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1615 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1616 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1618 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1620 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1621 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1622 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1623 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1625 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1626 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1627 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1628 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1629 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1631 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1633 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1636 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1637 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1639 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1640 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1641 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1642 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1643 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1644 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1645 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1646 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1647 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1649 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1651 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1653 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1656 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1657 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1658 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1659 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1660 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1661 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1662 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1663 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1664 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1665 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1666 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1667 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1668 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1669 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1670 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1671 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1672 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1673 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1674 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1675 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1676 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1678 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1679 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1681 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1683 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1686 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1687 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1688 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1689 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1690 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1691 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1692 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1693 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1694 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1695 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1696 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1697 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1698 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1699 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1700 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1701 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1702 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1703 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1704 list closes: Bug#53756
1705 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1706 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1707 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1708 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1709 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1710 policy closes: Bug#53760
1711 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1712 policy closes: Bug#53761
1713 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1714 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1715 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1716 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1717 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1718 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1719 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1720 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1721 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1722 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1723 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1725 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1726 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1727 to install with older fileutils.
1728 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1729 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1730 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1731 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1733 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1734 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1736 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1738 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1741 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1743 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1745 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1748 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1750 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1753 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1756 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1758 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1760 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1762 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1765 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1767 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1769 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1772 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1773 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1774 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1775 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1776 directoried (closes: #41547)
1777 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1778 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1779 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1780 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1781 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1782 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1783 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1784 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1785 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1786 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1787 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1789 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1790 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1791 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1792 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1793 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1794 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1795 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1797 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1798 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1799 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1800 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1802 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1804 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1806 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1807 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1809 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1811 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1814 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1818 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1821 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1823 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1824 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1825 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1826 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1827 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1828 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1829 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1830 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1831 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1832 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1833 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1834 this closes: Bug#38612
1835 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1836 before. closes: Bug#40864
1838 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1840 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1843 officially uploaded.
1844 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1846 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1847 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1848 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1850 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1851 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1852 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1853 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1854 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1855 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1857 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1858 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1859 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1861 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1863 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1864 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1865 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1866 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1867 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1869 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1871 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1874 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1875 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1876 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1877 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1878 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1879 there). closes: Bug#34233
1880 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1881 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1882 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1883 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1884 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1886 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1888 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1891 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1892 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1893 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1896 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1897 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1898 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1899 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1900 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1903 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1904 number. closes: BUG#25911
1906 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1907 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1908 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1909 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1910 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1911 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1913 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1914 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1915 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1918 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1919 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1920 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1922 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1923 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1924 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1925 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1927 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1928 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1929 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1931 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1933 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1934 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1935 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1936 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1937 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1938 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1939 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1940 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1943 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1945 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1946 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1949 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1951 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1955 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1957 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1960 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1961 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1962 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1963 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1964 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1965 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1966 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1968 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1969 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1971 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1973 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1975 * non-maintainer release
1976 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1977 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1979 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1980 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1981 * no content changes
1982 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1984 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1986 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1990 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1992 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1996 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1997 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1998 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2000 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2001 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2003 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2004 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2005 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2006 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2008 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2009 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2010 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2011 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2012 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2013 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2014 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2016 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2017 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2018 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2021 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2022 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2023 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2025 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2026 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2027 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2029 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2030 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2032 * New version numbering scheme:
2034 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2035 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2036 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2039 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2040 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2041 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2042 differ between the manuals.
2044 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2045 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2046 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2047 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2049 * Packaging changes:
2051 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2052 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2054 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2056 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2058 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2062 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2063 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2064 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2066 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2067 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2070 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2071 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2072 file extension as the referenced file
2074 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2075 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2077 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2078 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2079 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2080 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2083 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2084 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2085 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2087 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2088 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2089 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2090 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2093 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2094 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2097 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2098 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2099 reasonable default configuration
2101 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2102 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2103 by all news servers and clients
2105 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2106 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2107 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2108 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2109 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2111 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2112 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2115 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2117 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2118 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2120 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2123 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2124 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2126 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2127 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2129 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2131 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2133 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2136 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2137 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2138 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2140 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2142 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2143 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2144 * Don't use debstd anymore
2146 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2148 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2151 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2152 contrib/non-free policy
2153 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2154 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2155 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2156 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2157 - new section about `Daemons'
2158 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2159 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2160 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2161 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2162 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2163 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2164 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2165 * SGML source code included in package
2166 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2168 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2170 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2173 - completely reworked structure
2174 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2175 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2176 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2177 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2178 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2179 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2180 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2181 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2182 - mention "orphaned packages"
2183 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2184 distributions' policy
2185 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2186 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2187 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2188 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2189 - added section about arch spec strings
2190 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2191 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2192 - added section about "menus"
2193 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2194 the new documentation policy soon
2195 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2196 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2198 - added section about editors and pagers
2199 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2200 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2201 - added section about device files
2202 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2203 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2204 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2206 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2207 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2208 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2209 - Added new section about obsolete names
2210 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2211 * Fixed package's description
2213 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2215 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2219 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2221 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2224 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2225 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2226 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2228 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2230 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2233 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2234 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2236 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2237 and upload it "byhand" too.
2239 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2241 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2245 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2246 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2247 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2248 functionality must not have the same name.
2249 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2250 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2251 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2252 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2253 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2254 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2255 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2257 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2258 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2259 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2260 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2261 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2262 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2263 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2264 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2267 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2269 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2271 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2273 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2274 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2275 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2276 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2277 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2280 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2282 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2284 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2286 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2287 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2288 description of deb file format.
2289 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2290 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2292 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2294 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2295 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2297 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2299 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2301 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2302 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2303 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2304 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2305 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2306 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2307 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2308 packages in section on Procedure
2309 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2310 a package maintainer
2311 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2312 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2313 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2315 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2316 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2317 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2318 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2319 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2320 on various shlib files
2321 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2322 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2323 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2325 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2327 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2329 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2330 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2331 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2333 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2334 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2335 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2336 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2337 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2339 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2341 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2343 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2345 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2347 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2348 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2349 compatibility go in contrib.
2351 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2352 instructions in policy manual.
2353 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2356 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2358 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2360 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2361 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2362 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2363 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2365 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2366 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2369 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2371 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2373 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2374 * More detail about changelog format names.
2376 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2377 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2381 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2383 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2385 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2387 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2389 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2391 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2393 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2395 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2396 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2397 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2399 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2401 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2403 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2405 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2407 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2411 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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