1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
17 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
18 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
19 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
20 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
22 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
23 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
24 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
25 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
26 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
27 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
28 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
29 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
30 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
31 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
32 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
33 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
34 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
35 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
36 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
37 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
38 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
39 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
40 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
41 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
42 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
43 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
44 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
47 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
49 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
50 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
51 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
57 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
58 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
60 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
61 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
62 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
63 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
66 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
68 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
72 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
73 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
74 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
77 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
78 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
79 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
81 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
82 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
88 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
89 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
90 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
93 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
94 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
99 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
100 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
101 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
102 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
105 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
106 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
111 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
113 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
119 Closes: #459868, #581011
120 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
121 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
123 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
126 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
128 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
131 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
133 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
141 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
144 Closes: #501930, #593909
145 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
150 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
151 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
152 machine. (Closes: #591857)
153 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
154 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
155 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
156 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
157 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
158 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
159 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
160 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
161 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
162 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
164 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
165 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
166 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
167 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
168 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
169 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
170 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
171 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
172 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
173 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
174 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
175 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
176 than the version in oldstable.
177 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
178 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
179 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
180 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
181 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
182 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
183 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
184 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
185 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
186 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
187 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
188 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
189 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
190 package. (Closes: #609160)
192 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
194 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
218 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
232 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
233 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
235 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
237 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
240 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
242 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
248 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
254 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
255 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
259 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
260 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
264 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
265 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
269 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
270 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
275 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
284 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
286 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
287 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
288 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
289 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
290 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
291 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
292 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
293 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
294 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
296 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
297 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
298 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
299 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
300 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
301 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
303 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
305 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
311 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
314 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
315 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
316 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
317 and distribution license' (three times).
318 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
319 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
324 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
326 Proposed by Santiago Vila
327 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
340 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
344 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
346 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
355 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
358 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
361 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
363 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
367 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
371 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
374 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
380 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
381 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
385 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
386 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
390 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
391 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
396 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
397 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
398 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
401 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
402 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
407 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
408 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
413 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
414 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
415 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
416 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
417 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
418 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
419 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
420 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
421 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
422 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
423 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
424 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
425 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
426 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
427 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
428 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
429 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
430 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
431 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
432 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
433 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
434 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
435 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
436 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
437 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
438 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
439 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
440 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
441 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
442 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
443 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
445 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
447 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
449 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
453 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
455 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
456 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
460 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
463 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
464 Wording: Steve Langasek.
465 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
466 Seconded: Julien Cristau
467 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
470 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
471 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
472 Seconded: Russ Allbery
473 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
476 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
477 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
478 Seconded: Russ Allbery
480 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
481 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
482 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
483 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
484 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
485 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
486 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
487 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
490 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
491 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
492 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
493 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
494 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
495 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
496 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
498 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
499 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
500 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
501 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
502 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
503 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
504 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
507 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
508 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
509 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
510 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
511 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
513 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
516 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
520 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
521 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
524 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
526 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
533 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
534 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
538 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
539 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
543 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
544 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
547 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
548 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
556 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
562 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
566 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
567 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
572 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
576 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
577 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
581 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
582 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
583 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
584 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
585 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
586 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
587 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
588 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
589 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
590 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
591 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
592 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
593 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
594 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
595 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
597 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
598 Source field descriptions.
599 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
600 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
601 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
602 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
603 description says otherwise.
605 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
607 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
611 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
614 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
615 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
618 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
622 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
627 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
628 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
632 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
633 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
634 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
635 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
639 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
640 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
641 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
642 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
643 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
645 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
646 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
650 * Add myself to Uploaders.
653 * Add myself to Uploaders.
654 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
656 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
657 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
658 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
660 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
662 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
665 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
670 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
672 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
674 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
675 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
679 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
682 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
684 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
685 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
689 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
690 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
694 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
695 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
697 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
699 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
700 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
702 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
704 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
705 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
706 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
707 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
709 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
710 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
714 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
718 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
720 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
721 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
722 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
723 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
724 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
725 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
726 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
727 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
728 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
729 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
730 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
731 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
732 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
733 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
734 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
735 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
736 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
737 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
738 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
739 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
740 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
741 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
742 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
743 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
744 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
745 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
746 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
747 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
748 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
749 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
751 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
752 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
753 links was completed long ago.
754 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
756 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
758 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
761 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
763 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
765 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
768 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
769 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
770 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
771 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
772 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
773 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
774 Millan (Closes: #209008).
775 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
776 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
778 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
780 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
782 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
783 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
784 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
785 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
786 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
787 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
788 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
790 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
791 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
792 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
793 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
795 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
796 Küster (Closes: #403391).
797 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
798 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
799 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
800 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
801 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
802 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
806 Closes: #186700, #458910
807 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
808 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
812 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
813 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
814 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
815 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
816 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
817 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
818 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
820 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
821 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
823 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
824 * Add an md5sums control file.
825 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
826 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
827 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
828 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
829 currently part of policy.
830 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
831 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
832 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
835 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
837 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
840 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
841 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
842 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
843 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
844 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
845 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
846 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
847 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
848 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
849 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
850 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
851 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
852 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
853 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
854 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
856 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
858 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
859 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
860 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
862 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
863 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
864 list?" (Closes: #412634).
865 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
866 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
867 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
868 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
869 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
870 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
871 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
872 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
873 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
874 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
875 debconf specification.
876 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
877 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
879 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
881 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
884 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
886 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
887 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
891 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
892 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
893 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
894 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
895 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
897 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
898 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
899 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
900 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
901 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
902 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
903 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
904 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
905 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
906 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
907 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
908 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
909 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
910 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
911 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
917 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
918 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
919 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
921 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
922 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
923 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
925 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
927 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
930 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
931 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
933 Polo (Closes: #372497).
934 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
935 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
938 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
939 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
940 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
942 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
944 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
946 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
948 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
949 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
950 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
951 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
952 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
953 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
955 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
957 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
960 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
961 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
962 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
964 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
965 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
967 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
969 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
972 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
973 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
974 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
975 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
976 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
977 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
978 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
979 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
980 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
982 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
983 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
984 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
985 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
986 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
987 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
989 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
991 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
992 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
995 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
997 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1000 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1002 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1003 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1004 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1005 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1006 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1007 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1008 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1009 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1010 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1011 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1012 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1013 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1014 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1015 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1016 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1017 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1018 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1020 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1021 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1022 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1023 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1024 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1025 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1026 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1028 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1029 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1030 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1031 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1033 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1034 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1035 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1036 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1037 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1038 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1039 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1040 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1041 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1042 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1043 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1046 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1049 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1051 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1052 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1053 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1054 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1055 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1056 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1057 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1058 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1060 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1062 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1066 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1068 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1070 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1071 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1072 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1074 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1075 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1076 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1080 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1082 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1083 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1085 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1086 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1087 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1089 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1090 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1091 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1092 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1093 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1094 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1095 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1097 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1100 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1102 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1105 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1106 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1107 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1109 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1110 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1112 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1114 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1116 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1120 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1121 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1122 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1123 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1125 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1126 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1127 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1128 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1131 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1132 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1135 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1136 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1138 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1139 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1140 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1142 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1143 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1144 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1145 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1148 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1149 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1150 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1152 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1153 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1154 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1157 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1158 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1159 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1161 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1162 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1163 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1165 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1166 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1167 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1168 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1169 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1170 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1171 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1172 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1174 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1176 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1180 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1181 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1182 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1183 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1184 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1185 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1186 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1187 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1189 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1190 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1191 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1192 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1193 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1194 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1195 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1196 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1197 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1198 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1199 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1200 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1201 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1202 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1203 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1204 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1207 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1208 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1209 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1212 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1213 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1214 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1216 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1217 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1218 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1219 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1220 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1221 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1223 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1224 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1226 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1227 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1228 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1229 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1230 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1231 Closes: #185943, #237049
1233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1235 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1241 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1242 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1243 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1244 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1245 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1246 running. closes: Bug#187250
1247 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1248 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1249 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1250 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1251 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1252 user closes: Bug#176506
1254 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1256 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1260 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1261 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1262 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1263 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1264 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1265 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1266 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1267 deb-building toolchain.
1268 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1269 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1270 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1271 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1272 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1273 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1274 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1275 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1276 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1277 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1278 sections about changelog files.
1280 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1281 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1282 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1283 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1284 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1285 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1287 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1288 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1289 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1290 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1291 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1292 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1293 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1294 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1295 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1296 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1297 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1298 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1299 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1300 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1301 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1302 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1303 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1304 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1305 for the restructuring
1307 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1309 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1314 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1315 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1316 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1317 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1318 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1319 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1321 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1322 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1323 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1324 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1325 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1326 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1327 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1329 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1330 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1331 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1332 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1334 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1336 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1340 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1341 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1342 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1343 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1344 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1346 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1347 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1348 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1349 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1351 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1352 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1353 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1354 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1355 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1356 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1357 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1358 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1359 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1360 offtopic stuff, too.
1361 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1362 script should start it, closes: #60979
1363 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1364 "should", closes: #170019
1365 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1366 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1367 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1368 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1369 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1370 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1371 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1372 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1375 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1377 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1381 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1382 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1383 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1384 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1385 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1386 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1387 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1388 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1390 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1391 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1392 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1393 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1394 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1395 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1396 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1397 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1398 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1400 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1401 file, closes: Bug#65764
1403 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1405 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1408 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1409 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1410 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1411 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1412 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1413 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1414 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1415 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1416 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1417 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1418 details. closes: Bug#133030
1419 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1420 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1421 parts of Bug#161455.
1423 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1425 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1428 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1429 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1430 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1431 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1432 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1433 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1434 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1435 not. closes: Bug#139820
1436 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1437 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1438 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1439 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1440 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1441 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1442 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1443 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1444 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1445 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1447 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1449 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1450 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1451 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1452 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1453 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1454 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1455 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1456 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1457 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1458 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1459 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1460 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1461 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1462 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1463 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1464 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1465 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1466 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1467 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1468 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1470 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1471 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1472 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1473 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1474 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1475 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1476 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1478 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1479 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1480 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1481 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1482 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1483 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1484 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1485 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1486 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1488 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1490 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1493 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1494 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1495 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1496 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1497 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1498 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1499 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1500 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1501 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1502 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1503 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1504 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1505 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1506 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1507 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1508 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1509 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1510 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1511 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1512 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1513 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1514 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1516 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1518 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1521 medium, high, emergency.
1522 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1523 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1524 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1525 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1526 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1529 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1530 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1531 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1533 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1534 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1535 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1536 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1537 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1538 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1539 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1544 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1547 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1548 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1549 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1551 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1552 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1553 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1554 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1555 debian/rules to do this
1556 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1557 patches are incorporated upstream
1558 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1559 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1560 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1561 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1562 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1563 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1565 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1566 system closes: Bug#91249
1567 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1568 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1569 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1570 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1571 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1572 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1573 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1574 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1575 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1576 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1577 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1578 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1579 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1581 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1583 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1586 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1587 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1588 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1590 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1591 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1592 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1594 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1597 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1599 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1602 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1603 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1604 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1605 package for the time being
1606 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1607 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1608 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1609 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1610 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1611 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1612 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1613 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1614 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1615 Build-Depends arch syntax
1616 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1618 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1619 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1621 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1622 from policy maintenance duties.
1623 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1624 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1626 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1628 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1632 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1634 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1637 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1638 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1639 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1640 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1641 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1642 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1643 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1644 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1645 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1646 minor version number for this
1647 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1648 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1649 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1650 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1651 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1652 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1653 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1654 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1655 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1657 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1659 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1662 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1663 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1664 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1665 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1667 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1669 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1670 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1671 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1672 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1673 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1674 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1675 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1676 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1677 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1678 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1679 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1680 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1681 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1682 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1683 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1684 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1689 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1692 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1694 * Document the Enhances relationship
1695 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1696 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1697 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1698 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1699 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1700 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1702 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1704 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1705 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1706 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1707 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1709 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1710 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1711 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1712 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1713 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1717 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1720 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1721 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1723 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1724 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1725 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1726 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1727 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1728 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1729 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1730 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1731 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1733 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1735 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1737 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1740 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1741 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1742 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1743 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1744 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1745 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1746 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1747 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1748 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1749 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1750 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1751 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1752 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1753 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1754 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1755 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1756 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1757 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1758 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1759 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1760 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1762 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1763 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1765 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1767 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1770 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1771 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1772 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1773 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1774 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1775 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1776 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1777 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1778 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1779 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1780 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1781 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1782 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1783 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1784 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1785 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1786 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1787 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1788 list closes: Bug#53756
1789 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1790 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1791 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1792 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1793 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1794 policy closes: Bug#53760
1795 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1796 policy closes: Bug#53761
1797 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1798 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1799 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1800 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1801 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1802 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1803 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1804 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1805 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1806 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1807 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1809 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1810 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1811 to install with older fileutils.
1812 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1813 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1814 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1815 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1817 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1818 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1820 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1822 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1825 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1827 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1829 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1832 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1834 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1837 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1840 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1842 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1844 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1846 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1849 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1851 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1853 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1856 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1857 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1858 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1859 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1860 directoried (closes: #41547)
1861 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1862 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1863 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1864 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1865 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1866 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1867 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1868 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1869 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1870 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1871 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1873 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1874 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1875 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1876 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1877 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1878 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1879 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1881 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1882 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1883 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1884 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1886 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1888 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1890 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1891 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1893 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1895 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1898 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1900 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1902 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1905 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1907 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1908 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1909 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1910 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1911 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1912 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1913 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1914 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1915 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1916 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1917 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1918 this closes: Bug#38612
1919 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1920 before. closes: Bug#40864
1922 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1924 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1927 officially uploaded.
1928 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1930 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1931 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1932 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1934 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1935 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1936 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1937 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1938 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1939 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1941 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1942 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1943 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1945 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1947 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1948 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1949 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1950 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1951 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1953 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1955 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1958 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1959 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1960 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1961 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1962 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1963 there). closes: Bug#34233
1964 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1965 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1966 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1967 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1968 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1970 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1972 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1975 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1976 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1977 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1980 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1981 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1982 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1983 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1984 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1987 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1988 number. closes: BUG#25911
1990 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1991 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1992 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1993 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1994 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1995 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1997 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1998 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1999 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2002 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2003 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2004 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2006 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2007 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2008 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2009 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2011 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2012 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2013 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2015 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2017 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2018 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2019 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2020 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2021 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2022 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2023 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2024 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2027 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2029 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2030 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2033 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2035 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2039 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2041 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2044 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2045 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2046 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2047 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2048 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2049 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2050 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2052 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2053 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2055 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2057 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2059 * non-maintainer release
2060 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2061 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2063 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2064 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2065 * no content changes
2066 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2068 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2070 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2074 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2076 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2080 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2081 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2082 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2084 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2085 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2087 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2088 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2089 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2090 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2092 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2093 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2094 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2095 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2096 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2097 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2098 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2100 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2101 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2102 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2105 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2106 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2107 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2109 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2110 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2111 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2113 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2114 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2116 * New version numbering scheme:
2118 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2119 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2120 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2123 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2124 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2125 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2126 differ between the manuals.
2128 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2129 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2130 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2131 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2133 * Packaging changes:
2135 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2136 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2138 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2140 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2142 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2146 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2147 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2148 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2150 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2151 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2154 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2155 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2156 file extension as the referenced file
2158 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2159 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2161 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2162 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2163 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2164 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2167 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2168 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2169 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2171 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2172 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2173 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2174 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2177 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2178 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2181 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2182 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2183 reasonable default configuration
2185 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2186 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2187 by all news servers and clients
2189 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2190 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2191 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2192 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2193 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2195 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2196 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2199 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2201 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2202 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2204 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2207 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2208 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2210 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2211 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2213 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2215 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2217 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2220 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2221 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2222 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2224 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2226 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2227 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2228 * Don't use debstd anymore
2230 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2232 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2235 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2236 contrib/non-free policy
2237 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2238 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2239 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2240 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2241 - new section about `Daemons'
2242 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2243 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2244 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2245 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2246 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2247 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2248 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2249 * SGML source code included in package
2250 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2252 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2254 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2257 - completely reworked structure
2258 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2259 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2260 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2261 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2262 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2263 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2264 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2265 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2266 - mention "orphaned packages"
2267 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2268 distributions' policy
2269 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2270 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2271 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2272 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2273 - added section about arch spec strings
2274 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2275 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2276 - added section about "menus"
2277 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2278 the new documentation policy soon
2279 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2280 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2282 - added section about editors and pagers
2283 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2284 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2285 - added section about device files
2286 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2287 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2288 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2290 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2291 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2292 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2293 - Added new section about obsolete names
2294 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2295 * Fixed package's description
2297 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2299 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2303 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2305 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2308 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2309 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2310 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2312 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2314 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2317 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2318 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2320 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2321 and upload it "byhand" too.
2323 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2325 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2329 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2330 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2331 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2332 functionality must not have the same name.
2333 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2334 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2335 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2336 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2337 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2338 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2339 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2341 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2342 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2343 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2344 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2345 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2346 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2347 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2348 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2351 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2353 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2355 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2357 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2358 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2359 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2360 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2361 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2364 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2366 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2368 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2370 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2371 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2372 description of deb file format.
2373 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2374 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2376 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2378 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2379 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2381 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2383 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2385 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2386 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2387 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2388 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2389 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2390 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2391 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2392 packages in section on Procedure
2393 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2394 a package maintainer
2395 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2396 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2397 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2399 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2400 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2401 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2402 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2403 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2404 on various shlib files
2405 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2406 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2407 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2409 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2411 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2413 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2414 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2415 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2417 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2418 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2419 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2420 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2421 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2423 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2425 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2427 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2429 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2431 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2432 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2433 compatibility go in contrib.
2435 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2436 instructions in policy manual.
2437 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2440 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2442 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2444 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2445 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2446 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2447 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2449 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2450 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2453 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2455 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2457 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2458 * More detail about changelog format names.
2460 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2461 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2465 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2467 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2469 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2471 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2473 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2475 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2477 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2479 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2480 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2481 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2483 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2485 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2487 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2489 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2491 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2495 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100