1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
32 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
37 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
39 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
41 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
42 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
43 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
47 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
48 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
53 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
55 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
57 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
58 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
59 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
62 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
63 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
64 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
68 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
69 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
70 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
72 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
73 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
74 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
75 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
76 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
77 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
78 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
79 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
80 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
81 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
82 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
83 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
85 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
86 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
88 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
90 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
92 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
93 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
94 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
96 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
97 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
98 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
99 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
105 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
110 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
115 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
116 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
117 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
122 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
127 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
129 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
133 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
134 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
137 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
138 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
143 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
145 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
148 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
149 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
150 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
151 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
153 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
154 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
155 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
156 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
157 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
158 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
159 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
160 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
161 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
162 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
163 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
164 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
165 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
166 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
167 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
168 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
169 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
171 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
172 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
173 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
174 good to know which version one is looking at.
175 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
176 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
177 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
178 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
179 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
180 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
181 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
183 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
184 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
185 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
186 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
187 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
189 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
190 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
191 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
193 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
194 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
195 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
196 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
198 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
200 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
204 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
205 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
206 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
207 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
208 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
209 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
210 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
211 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
212 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
213 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
218 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
219 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
224 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
225 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
229 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
231 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
236 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
240 Closes: #620870, #532120
241 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
242 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
247 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
248 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
249 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
253 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
254 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
255 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
256 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
257 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
259 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
260 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
261 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
262 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
263 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
264 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
265 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
266 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
267 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
268 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
269 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
270 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
271 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
272 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
273 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
274 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
276 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
278 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
279 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
280 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
281 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
282 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
283 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
284 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
285 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
286 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
287 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
290 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
292 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
293 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
294 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
300 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
301 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
303 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
304 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
305 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
306 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
309 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
311 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
315 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
316 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
317 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
320 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
321 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
322 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
324 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
325 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
331 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
332 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
333 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
336 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
337 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
342 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
343 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
344 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
345 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
348 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
349 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
350 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
353 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
354 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
359 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
361 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
367 Closes: #459868, #581011
368 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
369 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
371 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
373 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
374 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
376 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
379 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
381 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
383 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
384 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
388 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
389 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
392 Closes: #501930, #593909
393 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
394 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
398 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
399 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
400 machine. (Closes: #591857)
401 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
402 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
403 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
404 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
405 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
406 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
407 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
408 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
409 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
410 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
412 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
413 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
414 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
415 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
416 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
417 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
418 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
419 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
420 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
421 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
422 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
423 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
424 than the version in oldstable.
425 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
426 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
427 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
428 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
429 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
430 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
431 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
432 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
433 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
434 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
435 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
436 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
437 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
438 package. (Closes: #609160)
440 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
442 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
460 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
461 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
465 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
466 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
470 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
471 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
475 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
476 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
483 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
485 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
488 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
490 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
502 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
503 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
507 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
508 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
512 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
513 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
517 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
522 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
523 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
527 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
528 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
532 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
534 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
535 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
536 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
537 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
538 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
539 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
540 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
541 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
542 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
544 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
545 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
546 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
547 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
548 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
549 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
551 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
553 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
559 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
562 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
563 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
564 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
565 and distribution license' (three times).
566 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
567 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
572 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
574 Proposed by Santiago Vila
575 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
582 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
583 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
587 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
588 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
589 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
592 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
594 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
595 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
599 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
603 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
605 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
606 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
609 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
611 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
615 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
619 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
628 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
629 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
633 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
638 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
644 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
645 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
646 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
649 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
650 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
655 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
656 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
660 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
661 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
662 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
663 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
664 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
665 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
666 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
667 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
668 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
669 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
670 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
671 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
672 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
673 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
674 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
675 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
676 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
677 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
678 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
679 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
680 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
681 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
682 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
683 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
684 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
685 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
686 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
687 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
688 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
689 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
690 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
691 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
693 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
695 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
697 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
701 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
703 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
704 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
708 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
711 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
712 Wording: Steve Langasek.
713 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
714 Seconded: Julien Cristau
715 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
718 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
719 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
720 Seconded: Russ Allbery
721 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
724 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
725 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
726 Seconded: Russ Allbery
728 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
729 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
730 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
731 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
732 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
733 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
734 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
735 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
738 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
739 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
740 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
741 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
742 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
743 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
744 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
746 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
747 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
748 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
749 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
750 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
751 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
752 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
755 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
756 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
757 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
758 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
759 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
761 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
764 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
765 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
768 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
769 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
772 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
774 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
777 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
781 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
782 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
786 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
787 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
791 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
792 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
795 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
796 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
798 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
799 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
801 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
802 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
804 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
805 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
807 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
809 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
810 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
812 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
814 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
815 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
819 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
820 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
824 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
825 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
829 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
830 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
831 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
832 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
833 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
834 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
835 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
836 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
837 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
838 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
839 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
840 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
841 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
842 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
843 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
845 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
846 Source field descriptions.
847 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
848 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
849 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
850 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
851 description says otherwise.
853 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
855 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
859 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
862 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
863 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
865 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
866 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
867 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
870 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
871 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
875 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
876 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
880 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
881 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
882 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
883 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
887 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
888 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
889 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
890 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
891 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
893 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
894 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
898 * Add myself to Uploaders.
901 * Add myself to Uploaders.
902 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
904 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
905 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
906 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
908 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
910 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
913 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
917 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
918 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
920 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
922 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
923 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
925 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
927 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
928 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
929 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
930 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
932 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
933 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
937 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
938 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
939 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
942 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
943 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
945 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
947 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
948 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
950 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
952 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
953 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
954 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
957 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
958 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
959 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
960 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
962 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
963 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
965 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
966 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
968 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
969 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
970 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
971 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
972 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
973 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
974 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
975 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
976 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
977 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
978 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
979 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
980 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
981 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
982 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
983 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
984 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
985 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
986 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
987 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
988 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
989 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
990 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
991 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
992 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
993 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
994 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
995 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
996 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
997 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
999 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1000 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1001 links was completed long ago.
1002 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1004 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1006 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1009 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1011 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1013 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1016 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1017 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1018 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1019 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1020 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1021 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1022 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1023 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1024 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1026 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1028 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1030 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1031 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1032 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1033 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1034 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1035 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1036 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1038 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1039 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1040 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1041 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1043 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1044 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1045 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1046 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1047 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1048 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1049 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1050 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1051 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1052 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1053 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1054 Closes: #186700, #458910
1055 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1056 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1057 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1059 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1060 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1061 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1062 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1063 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1064 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1065 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1066 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1068 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1069 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1071 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1072 * Add an md5sums control file.
1073 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1074 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1075 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1076 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1077 currently part of policy.
1078 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1079 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1080 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1083 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1085 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1088 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1089 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1090 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1091 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1092 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1093 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1094 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1095 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1096 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1097 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1098 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1099 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1100 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1101 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1102 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1104 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1106 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1107 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1108 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1110 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1111 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1112 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1113 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1114 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1115 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1116 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1117 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1118 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1119 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1120 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1121 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1122 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1123 debconf specification.
1124 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1125 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1127 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1129 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1132 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1134 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1135 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1140 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1141 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1142 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1143 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1145 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1146 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1147 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1148 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1149 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1150 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1151 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1152 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1153 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1154 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1155 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1156 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1157 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1159 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1165 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1166 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1167 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1169 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1170 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1171 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1173 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1175 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1178 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1179 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1181 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1183 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1186 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1187 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1188 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1189 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1190 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1192 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1194 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1196 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1197 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1198 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1199 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1200 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1201 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1203 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1205 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1208 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1209 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1210 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1212 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1213 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1215 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1217 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1220 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1221 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1222 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1223 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1224 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1225 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1226 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1227 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1228 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1230 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1231 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1232 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1233 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1234 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1235 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1237 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1239 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1240 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1243 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1245 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1248 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1250 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1251 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1252 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1253 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1254 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1255 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1256 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1257 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1258 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1259 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1260 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1261 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1262 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1263 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1264 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1265 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1266 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1268 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1269 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1270 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1271 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1272 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1273 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1274 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1276 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1277 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1278 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1279 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1281 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1282 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1283 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1284 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1285 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1286 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1287 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1288 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1289 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1290 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1291 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1294 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1297 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1299 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1300 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1301 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1302 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1303 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1304 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1305 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1306 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1308 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1310 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1314 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1316 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1318 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1319 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1320 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1322 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1323 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1324 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1328 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1330 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1331 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1333 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1335 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1337 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1339 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1341 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1342 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1343 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1345 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1348 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1350 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1353 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1354 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1355 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1357 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1358 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1359 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1360 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1362 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1364 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1368 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1369 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1370 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1371 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1372 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1373 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1374 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1375 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1376 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1379 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1380 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1382 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1383 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1384 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1385 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1386 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1387 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1388 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1390 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1391 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1392 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1393 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1396 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1397 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1398 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1400 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1401 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1402 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1405 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1406 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1407 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1408 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1409 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1410 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1411 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1412 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1413 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1414 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1415 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1416 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1417 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1418 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1419 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1420 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1422 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1424 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1428 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1429 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1430 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1431 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1432 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1433 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1434 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1435 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1437 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1438 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1439 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1440 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1441 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1442 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1443 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1444 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1445 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1446 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1447 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1448 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1450 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1451 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1452 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1456 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1457 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1460 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1461 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1462 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1464 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1465 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1466 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1467 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1468 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1469 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1471 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1472 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1474 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1475 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1476 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1477 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1478 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1479 Closes: #185943, #237049
1481 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1483 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1489 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1490 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1491 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1492 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1493 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1494 running. closes: Bug#187250
1495 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1496 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1497 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1498 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1499 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1500 user closes: Bug#176506
1502 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1504 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1508 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1509 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1510 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1511 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1512 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1513 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1514 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1515 deb-building toolchain.
1516 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1517 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1518 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1519 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1520 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1521 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1522 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1523 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1524 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1525 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1526 sections about changelog files.
1528 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1529 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1530 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1531 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1532 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1533 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1535 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1536 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1537 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1538 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1539 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1540 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1541 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1542 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1543 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1544 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1545 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1546 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1547 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1548 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1549 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1550 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1551 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1552 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1553 for the restructuring
1555 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1557 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1562 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1563 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1564 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1565 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1566 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1567 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1569 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1570 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1571 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1572 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1573 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1574 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1575 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1577 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1578 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1579 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1580 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1582 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1584 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1588 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1589 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1590 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1591 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1592 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1594 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1595 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1596 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1597 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1599 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1600 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1601 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1602 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1603 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1604 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1605 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1606 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1607 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1608 offtopic stuff, too.
1609 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1610 script should start it, closes: #60979
1611 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1612 "should", closes: #170019
1613 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1614 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1615 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1616 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1617 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1618 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1619 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1620 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1623 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1625 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1629 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1630 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1631 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1632 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1633 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1634 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1635 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1636 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1638 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1639 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1640 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1641 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1642 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1643 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1644 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1645 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1646 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1648 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1649 file, closes: Bug#65764
1651 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1653 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1656 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1657 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1658 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1659 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1660 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1661 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1662 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1663 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1664 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1665 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1666 details. closes: Bug#133030
1667 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1668 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1669 parts of Bug#161455.
1671 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1673 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1676 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1677 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1678 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1679 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1680 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1681 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1682 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1683 not. closes: Bug#139820
1684 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1685 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1686 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1687 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1688 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1689 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1690 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1691 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1692 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1693 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1695 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1697 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1698 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1699 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1700 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1701 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1702 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1703 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1704 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1705 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1706 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1707 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1708 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1709 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1710 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1711 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1712 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1713 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1714 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1715 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1716 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1718 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1719 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1720 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1721 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1722 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1723 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1724 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1726 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1727 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1728 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1729 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1730 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1731 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1732 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1733 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1734 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1736 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1738 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1741 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1742 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1743 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1744 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1745 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1746 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1747 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1748 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1749 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1750 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1751 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1752 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1753 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1754 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1755 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1756 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1757 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1758 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1759 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1760 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1761 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1762 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1764 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1766 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1769 medium, high, emergency.
1770 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1771 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1772 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1773 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1774 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1777 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1778 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1779 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1781 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1782 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1783 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1784 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1785 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1786 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1787 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1790 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1792 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1795 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1796 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1797 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1799 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1800 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1801 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1802 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1803 debian/rules to do this
1804 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1805 patches are incorporated upstream
1806 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1807 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1808 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1809 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1810 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1811 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1813 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1814 system closes: Bug#91249
1815 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1816 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1817 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1818 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1819 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1820 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1821 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1822 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1823 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1824 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1825 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1826 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1827 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1829 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1831 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1834 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1835 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1836 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1838 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1839 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1840 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1842 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1847 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1850 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1851 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1852 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1853 package for the time being
1854 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1855 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1856 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1857 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1858 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1859 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1860 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1861 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1862 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1863 Build-Depends arch syntax
1864 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1866 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1867 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1869 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1870 from policy maintenance duties.
1871 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1872 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1876 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1880 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1882 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1885 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1886 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1887 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1888 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1889 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1890 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1891 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1892 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1893 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1894 minor version number for this
1895 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1896 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1897 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1898 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1899 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1900 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1901 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1902 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1903 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1905 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1907 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1910 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1911 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1912 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1913 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1915 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1917 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1918 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1919 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1920 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1921 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1922 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1923 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1924 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1925 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1926 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1927 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1928 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1929 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1930 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1931 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1932 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1935 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1937 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1940 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1942 * Document the Enhances relationship
1943 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1944 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1945 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1946 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1947 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1948 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1950 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1952 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1953 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1954 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1955 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1957 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1958 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1959 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1960 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1961 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1963 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1965 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1968 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1969 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1971 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1972 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1973 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1974 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1975 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1976 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1977 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1978 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1979 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1981 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1983 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1985 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1988 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1989 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1990 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1991 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1992 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1993 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1994 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1995 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1996 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1997 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1998 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1999 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2000 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2001 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2002 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2003 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2004 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2005 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2006 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2007 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2008 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2010 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2011 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2013 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2015 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2018 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2019 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2020 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2021 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2022 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2023 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2024 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2025 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2026 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2027 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2028 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2029 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2030 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2031 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2032 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2033 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2034 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2035 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2036 list closes: Bug#53756
2037 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2038 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2039 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2040 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2041 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2042 policy closes: Bug#53760
2043 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2044 policy closes: Bug#53761
2045 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2046 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2047 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2048 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2049 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2050 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2051 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2052 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2053 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2054 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2055 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2057 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2058 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2059 to install with older fileutils.
2060 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2061 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2062 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2063 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2065 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2066 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2068 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2070 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2073 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2075 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2077 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2080 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2082 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2085 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2088 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2090 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2092 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2094 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2097 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2099 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2101 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2104 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2105 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2106 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2107 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2108 directoried (closes: #41547)
2109 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2110 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2111 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2112 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2113 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2114 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2115 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2116 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2117 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2118 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2119 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2121 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2122 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2123 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2124 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2125 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2126 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2127 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2129 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2130 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2131 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2132 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2134 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2136 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2138 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2139 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2141 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2143 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2146 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2150 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2153 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2155 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2156 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2157 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2158 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2159 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2160 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2161 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2162 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2163 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2164 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2165 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2166 this closes: Bug#38612
2167 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2168 before. closes: Bug#40864
2170 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2172 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2175 officially uploaded.
2176 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2178 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2179 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2180 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2182 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2183 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2184 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2185 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2186 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2187 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2189 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2190 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2191 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2193 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2195 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2196 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2197 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2198 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2199 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2201 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2203 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2206 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2207 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2208 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2209 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2210 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2211 there). closes: Bug#34233
2212 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2213 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2214 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2215 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2216 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2218 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2220 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2223 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2224 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2225 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2228 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2229 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2230 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2231 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2232 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2235 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2236 number. closes: BUG#25911
2238 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2239 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2240 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2241 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2242 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2243 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2245 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2246 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2247 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2250 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2251 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2252 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2254 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2255 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2256 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2257 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2259 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2260 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2261 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2263 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2265 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2266 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2267 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2268 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2269 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2270 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2271 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2272 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2275 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2277 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2278 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2283 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2287 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2289 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2292 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2293 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2294 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2295 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2296 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2297 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2298 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2300 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2301 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2303 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2305 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2307 * non-maintainer release
2308 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2309 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2311 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2312 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2313 * no content changes
2314 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2316 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2318 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2322 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2324 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2328 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2329 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2330 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2332 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2333 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2335 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2336 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2337 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2338 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2340 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2341 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2342 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2343 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2344 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2345 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2346 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2348 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2349 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2350 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2353 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2354 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2355 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2357 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2358 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2359 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2361 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2362 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2364 * New version numbering scheme:
2366 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2367 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2368 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2371 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2372 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2373 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2374 differ between the manuals.
2376 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2377 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2378 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2379 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2381 * Packaging changes:
2383 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2384 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2386 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2388 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2390 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2394 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2395 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2396 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2398 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2399 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2402 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2403 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2404 file extension as the referenced file
2406 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2407 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2409 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2410 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2411 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2412 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2415 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2416 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2417 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2419 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2420 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2421 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2422 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2425 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2426 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2429 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2430 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2431 reasonable default configuration
2433 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2434 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2435 by all news servers and clients
2437 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2438 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2439 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2440 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2441 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2443 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2444 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2447 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2449 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2450 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2452 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2455 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2456 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2458 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2459 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2461 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2463 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2465 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2468 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2469 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2470 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2472 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2474 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2475 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2476 * Don't use debstd anymore
2478 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2480 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2483 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2484 contrib/non-free policy
2485 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2486 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2487 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2488 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2489 - new section about `Daemons'
2490 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2491 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2492 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2493 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2494 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2495 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2496 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2497 * SGML source code included in package
2498 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2500 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2502 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2505 - completely reworked structure
2506 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2507 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2508 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2509 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2510 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2511 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2512 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2513 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2514 - mention "orphaned packages"
2515 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2516 distributions' policy
2517 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2518 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2519 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2520 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2521 - added section about arch spec strings
2522 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2523 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2524 - added section about "menus"
2525 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2526 the new documentation policy soon
2527 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2528 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2530 - added section about editors and pagers
2531 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2532 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2533 - added section about device files
2534 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2535 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2536 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2538 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2539 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2540 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2541 - Added new section about obsolete names
2542 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2543 * Fixed package's description
2545 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2547 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2551 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2553 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2556 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2557 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2558 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2560 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2562 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2565 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2566 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2568 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2569 and upload it "byhand" too.
2571 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2573 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2577 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2578 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2579 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2580 functionality must not have the same name.
2581 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2582 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2583 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2584 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2585 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2586 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2587 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2589 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2590 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2591 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2592 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2593 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2594 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2595 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2596 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2599 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2601 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2603 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2605 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2606 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2607 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2608 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2609 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2612 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2614 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2616 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2618 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2619 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2620 description of deb file format.
2621 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2622 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2624 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2626 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2627 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2629 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2631 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2633 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2634 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2635 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2636 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2637 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2638 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2639 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2640 packages in section on Procedure
2641 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2642 a package maintainer
2643 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2644 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2645 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2647 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2648 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2649 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2650 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2651 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2652 on various shlib files
2653 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2654 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2655 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2657 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2659 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2661 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2662 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2663 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2665 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2666 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2667 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2668 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2669 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2671 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2673 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2675 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2677 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2679 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2680 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2681 compatibility go in contrib.
2683 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2684 instructions in policy manual.
2685 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2688 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2690 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2692 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2693 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2694 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2695 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2697 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2698 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2701 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2703 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2705 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2706 * More detail about changelog format names.
2708 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2709 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2713 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2715 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2717 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2719 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2721 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2723 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2725 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2727 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2728 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2729 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2731 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2733 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2735 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2737 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2739 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2743 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100