1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
14 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
19 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
23 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
24 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
25 machine. (Closes: #591857)
26 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
27 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
28 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
29 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
30 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
31 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
32 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
33 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
34 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
35 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
38 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
39 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
40 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
41 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
42 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
43 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
44 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
45 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
46 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
47 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
48 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
49 than the version in oldstable.
50 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
51 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
52 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
53 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
55 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
57 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
60 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
71 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
85 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
86 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
90 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
91 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
98 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
103 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
105 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
111 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
112 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
117 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
118 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
122 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
123 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
127 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
132 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
133 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
138 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
143 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
147 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
149 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
150 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
151 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
152 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
153 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
154 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
155 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
156 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
157 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
159 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
160 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
161 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
162 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
163 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
164 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
166 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
168 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
174 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
177 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
178 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
179 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
180 and distribution license' (three times).
181 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
182 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
187 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
189 Proposed by Santiago Vila
190 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
202 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
203 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
204 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
207 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
209 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
214 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
218 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
220 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
221 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
224 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
226 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
230 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
232 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
233 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
234 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
237 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
243 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
244 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
248 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
253 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
259 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
260 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
261 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
264 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
265 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
270 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
271 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
275 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
276 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
277 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
278 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
279 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
280 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
281 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
282 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
283 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
284 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
285 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
286 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
287 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
288 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
289 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
290 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
291 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
292 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
293 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
294 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
295 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
296 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
297 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
298 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
299 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
300 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
301 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
302 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
303 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
304 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
305 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
306 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
308 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
310 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
312 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
316 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
318 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
319 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
323 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
326 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
327 Wording: Steve Langasek.
328 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
329 Seconded: Julien Cristau
330 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
333 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
334 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
335 Seconded: Russ Allbery
336 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
339 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
340 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
341 Seconded: Russ Allbery
343 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
344 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
345 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
346 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
347 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
348 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
349 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
350 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
353 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
354 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
355 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
356 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
357 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
358 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
359 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
361 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
362 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
363 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
364 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
365 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
366 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
367 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
370 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
371 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
372 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
373 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
374 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
376 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
379 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
383 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
384 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
387 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
389 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
392 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
396 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
397 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
401 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
402 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
407 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
410 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
411 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
413 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
414 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
419 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
420 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
424 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
425 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
429 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
434 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
439 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
440 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
444 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
445 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
446 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
447 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
448 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
449 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
450 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
451 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
452 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
453 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
454 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
455 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
456 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
457 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
458 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
460 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
461 Source field descriptions.
462 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
463 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
464 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
465 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
466 description says otherwise.
468 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
470 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
474 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
477 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
478 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
481 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
485 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
490 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
491 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
495 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
496 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
497 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
498 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
502 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
503 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
504 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
505 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
506 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
508 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
509 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
513 * Add myself to Uploaders.
516 * Add myself to Uploaders.
517 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
519 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
520 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
521 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
523 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
525 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
528 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
533 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
535 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
537 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
538 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
542 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
543 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
545 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
547 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
548 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
552 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
553 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
557 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
560 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
565 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
568 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
569 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
572 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
573 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
577 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
578 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
581 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
583 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
584 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
585 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
586 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
587 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
588 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
589 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
590 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
591 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
592 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
593 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
594 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
595 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
596 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
597 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
598 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
599 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
600 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
601 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
602 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
603 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
604 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
605 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
606 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
607 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
608 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
609 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
610 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
611 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
612 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
614 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
615 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
616 links was completed long ago.
617 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
619 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
621 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
624 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
626 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
628 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
631 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
632 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
633 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
634 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
635 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
636 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
637 Millan (Closes: #209008).
638 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
639 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
641 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
643 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
645 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
646 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
647 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
648 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
649 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
650 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
651 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
653 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
654 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
655 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
656 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
658 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
659 Küster (Closes: #403391).
660 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
661 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
662 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
663 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
664 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
665 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
669 Closes: #186700, #458910
670 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
671 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
675 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
676 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
677 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
678 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
679 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
680 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
681 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
683 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
684 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
686 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
687 * Add an md5sums control file.
688 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
689 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
690 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
691 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
692 currently part of policy.
693 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
694 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
695 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
698 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
700 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
703 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
704 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
705 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
706 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
707 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
708 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
709 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
710 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
711 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
713 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
714 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
715 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
716 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
717 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
719 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
721 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
722 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
723 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
725 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
726 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
727 list?" (Closes: #412634).
728 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
729 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
730 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
731 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
732 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
733 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
734 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
735 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
736 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
737 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
738 debconf specification.
739 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
740 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
742 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
744 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
747 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
748 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
749 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
750 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
752 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
754 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
755 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
756 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
757 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
758 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
760 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
761 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
762 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
763 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
764 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
765 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
766 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
767 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
768 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
769 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
770 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
771 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
772 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
774 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
775 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
777 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
779 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
780 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
781 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
782 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
783 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
784 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
785 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
786 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
790 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
793 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
794 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
796 Polo (Closes: #372497).
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
798 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
800 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
801 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
802 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
803 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
805 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
807 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
808 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
809 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
811 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
812 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
813 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
814 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
815 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
816 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
818 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
820 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
823 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
824 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
825 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
827 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
828 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
830 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
832 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
835 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
836 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
837 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
838 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
839 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
840 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
841 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
842 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
843 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
845 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
846 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
848 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
849 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
850 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
852 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
853 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
854 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
855 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
858 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
860 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
863 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
865 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
866 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
867 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
868 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
869 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
870 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
871 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
872 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
873 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
874 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
875 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
876 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
877 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
878 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
879 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
880 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
881 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
882 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
883 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
884 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
885 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
886 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
887 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
888 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
889 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
891 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
892 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
893 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
894 Hess (Closes: #362247).
895 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
896 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
897 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
898 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
899 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
900 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
901 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
902 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
903 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
904 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
905 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
906 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
909 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
912 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
914 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
915 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
916 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
917 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
918 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
919 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
920 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
921 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
923 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
925 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
929 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
931 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
933 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
934 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
935 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
936 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
937 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
938 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
939 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
943 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
945 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
946 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
948 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
950 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
951 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
952 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
954 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
955 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
956 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
957 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
958 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
959 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
960 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
963 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
965 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
968 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
969 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
970 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
972 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
973 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
975 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
977 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
979 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
983 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
984 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
985 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
986 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
988 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
989 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
990 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
991 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
994 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
995 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
998 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
999 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1001 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1002 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1003 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1005 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1006 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1007 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1008 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1011 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1012 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1013 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1014 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1015 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1016 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1017 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1020 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1021 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1022 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1024 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1025 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1026 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1027 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1028 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1029 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1030 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1031 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1032 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1033 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1034 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1035 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1037 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1039 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1043 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1044 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1045 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1046 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1047 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1048 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1049 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1050 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1052 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1053 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1054 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1055 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1056 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1057 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1058 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1059 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1060 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1061 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1062 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1063 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1065 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1066 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1067 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1070 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1071 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1072 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1075 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1076 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1077 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1079 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1080 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1081 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1082 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1083 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1084 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1086 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1087 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1089 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1090 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1091 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1092 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1093 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1094 Closes: #185943, #237049
1096 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1098 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1104 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1105 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1106 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1107 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1108 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1109 running. closes: Bug#187250
1110 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1111 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1112 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1113 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1114 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1115 user closes: Bug#176506
1117 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1119 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1123 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1124 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1125 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1126 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1127 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1128 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1129 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1130 deb-building toolchain.
1131 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1132 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1133 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1134 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1135 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1136 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1137 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1138 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1139 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1140 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1141 sections about changelog files.
1143 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1144 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1145 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1146 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1147 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1148 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1150 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1151 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1152 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1153 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1154 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1155 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1156 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1157 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1158 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1159 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1160 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1161 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1162 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1163 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1164 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1165 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1166 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1167 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1168 for the restructuring
1170 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1172 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1177 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1178 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1179 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1180 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1181 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1182 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1184 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1185 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1186 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1187 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1188 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1189 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1190 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1192 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1193 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1194 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1195 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1197 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1199 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1203 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1204 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1205 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1206 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1207 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1209 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1210 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1211 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1212 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1214 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1215 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1216 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1217 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1218 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1219 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1220 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1221 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1222 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1223 offtopic stuff, too.
1224 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1225 script should start it, closes: #60979
1226 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1227 "should", closes: #170019
1228 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1229 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1230 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1231 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1232 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1233 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1234 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1235 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1238 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1240 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1244 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1245 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1246 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1247 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1248 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1249 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1250 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1251 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1253 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1254 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1255 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1256 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1257 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1258 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1259 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1260 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1261 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1263 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1264 file, closes: Bug#65764
1266 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1268 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1271 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1272 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1273 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1274 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1275 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1276 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1277 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1278 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1279 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1280 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1281 details. closes: Bug#133030
1282 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1283 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1284 parts of Bug#161455.
1286 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1288 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1291 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1292 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1293 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1294 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1295 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1296 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1297 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1298 not. closes: Bug#139820
1299 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1300 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1301 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1302 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1303 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1304 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1305 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1306 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1307 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1308 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1310 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1312 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1313 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1314 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1315 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1316 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1317 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1318 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1319 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1320 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1321 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1322 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1323 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1324 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1325 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1326 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1327 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1328 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1329 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1330 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1331 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1333 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1334 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1335 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1336 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1337 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1338 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1339 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1341 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1342 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1343 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1344 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1345 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1346 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1347 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1348 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1349 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1351 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1353 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1356 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1357 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1358 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1359 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1360 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1361 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1362 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1363 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1364 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1365 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1366 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1367 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1368 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1369 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1370 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1371 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1372 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1373 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1374 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1375 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1376 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1377 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1379 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1381 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1384 medium, high, emergency.
1385 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1386 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1387 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1388 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1389 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1392 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1393 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1394 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1396 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1397 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1398 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1399 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1400 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1401 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1402 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1405 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1407 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1410 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1411 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1412 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1414 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1415 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1416 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1417 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1418 debian/rules to do this
1419 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1420 patches are incorporated upstream
1421 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1422 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1423 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1424 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1425 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1426 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1428 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1429 system closes: Bug#91249
1430 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1431 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1432 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1433 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1434 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1435 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1436 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1437 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1438 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1439 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1440 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1441 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1442 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1444 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1446 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1449 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1450 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1451 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1453 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1454 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1455 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1457 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1460 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1462 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1465 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1466 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1467 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1468 package for the time being
1469 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1470 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1471 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1472 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1473 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1474 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1475 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1476 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1477 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1478 Build-Depends arch syntax
1479 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1481 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1482 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1484 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1485 from policy maintenance duties.
1486 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1487 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1489 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1491 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1495 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1497 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1500 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1501 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1502 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1503 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1504 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1505 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1506 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1507 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1508 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1509 minor version number for this
1510 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1511 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1512 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1513 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1514 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1515 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1516 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1517 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1518 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1520 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1522 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1525 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1526 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1527 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1528 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1530 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1532 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1533 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1534 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1535 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1536 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1537 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1538 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1539 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1540 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1541 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1542 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1543 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1544 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1545 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1546 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1547 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1550 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1552 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1555 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1557 * Document the Enhances relationship
1558 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1559 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1560 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1561 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1562 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1563 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1565 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1567 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1568 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1569 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1570 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1572 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1573 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1574 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1575 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1576 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1578 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1580 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1583 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1584 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1586 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1587 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1588 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1589 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1590 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1591 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1592 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1593 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1594 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1596 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1598 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1600 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1603 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1604 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1605 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1606 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1607 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1608 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1609 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1610 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1611 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1612 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1613 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1614 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1615 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1616 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1617 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1618 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1619 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1620 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1621 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1622 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1623 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1625 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1626 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1628 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1630 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1633 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1634 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1635 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1636 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1637 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1638 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1639 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1640 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1641 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1642 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1643 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1644 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1645 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1646 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1647 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1648 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1649 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1650 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1651 list closes: Bug#53756
1652 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1653 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1654 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1655 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1656 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1657 policy closes: Bug#53760
1658 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1659 policy closes: Bug#53761
1660 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1661 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1662 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1663 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1664 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1665 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1666 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1667 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1668 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1669 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1670 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1672 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1673 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1674 to install with older fileutils.
1675 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1676 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1677 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1678 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1680 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1681 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1683 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1685 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1688 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1690 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1692 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1695 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1697 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1700 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1703 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1705 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1707 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1709 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1712 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1714 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1716 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1719 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1720 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1721 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1722 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1723 directoried (closes: #41547)
1724 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1725 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1726 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1727 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1728 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1729 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1730 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1731 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1732 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1733 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1734 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1736 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1737 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1738 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1739 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1740 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1741 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1742 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1744 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1745 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1746 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1747 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1749 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1751 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1753 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1754 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1756 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1758 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1761 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1763 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1765 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1768 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1770 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1771 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1772 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1773 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1774 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1775 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1776 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1777 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1778 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1779 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1780 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1781 this closes: Bug#38612
1782 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1783 before. closes: Bug#40864
1785 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1787 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1790 officially uploaded.
1791 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1793 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1794 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1795 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1797 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1798 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1799 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1800 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1801 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1802 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1804 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1805 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1806 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1808 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1810 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1811 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1812 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1813 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1814 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1818 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1821 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1822 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1823 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1824 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1825 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1826 there). closes: Bug#34233
1827 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1828 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1829 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1830 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1831 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1833 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1835 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1838 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1839 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1840 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1843 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1844 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1845 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1846 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1847 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1850 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1851 number. closes: BUG#25911
1853 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1854 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1855 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1856 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1857 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1858 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1860 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1861 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1862 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1865 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1866 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1867 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1869 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1870 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1871 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1872 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1874 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1875 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1876 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1878 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1880 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1881 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1882 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1883 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1884 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1885 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1886 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1887 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1890 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1892 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1893 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1896 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1898 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1902 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1904 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1907 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1908 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1909 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1910 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1911 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1912 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1913 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1915 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1916 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1918 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1920 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1922 * non-maintainer release
1923 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1924 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1926 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1927 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1928 * no content changes
1929 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1931 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1933 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1937 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1939 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1943 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1944 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1945 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1947 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1948 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1950 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1951 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1952 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1953 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1955 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1956 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1957 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1958 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1959 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1960 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1961 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1963 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1964 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1965 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1968 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1969 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1970 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1972 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1973 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1974 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1976 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1977 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1979 * New version numbering scheme:
1981 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1982 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1983 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1986 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1987 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1988 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1989 differ between the manuals.
1991 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1992 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1993 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1994 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1996 * Packaging changes:
1998 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1999 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2001 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2003 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2005 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2009 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2010 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2011 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2013 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2014 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2017 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2018 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2019 file extension as the referenced file
2021 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2022 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2024 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2025 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2026 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2027 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2030 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2031 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2032 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2034 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2035 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2036 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2037 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2040 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2041 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2044 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2045 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2046 reasonable default configuration
2048 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2049 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2050 by all news servers and clients
2052 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2053 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2054 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2055 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2056 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2058 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2059 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2062 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2064 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2065 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2067 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2070 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2071 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2073 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2074 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2076 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2078 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2080 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2083 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2084 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2085 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2087 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2089 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2090 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2091 * Don't use debstd anymore
2093 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2095 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2098 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2099 contrib/non-free policy
2100 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2101 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2102 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2103 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2104 - new section about `Daemons'
2105 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2106 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2107 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2108 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2109 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2110 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2111 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2112 * SGML source code included in package
2113 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2115 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2117 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2120 - completely reworked structure
2121 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2122 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2123 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2124 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2125 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2126 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2127 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2128 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2129 - mention "orphaned packages"
2130 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2131 distributions' policy
2132 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2133 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2134 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2135 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2136 - added section about arch spec strings
2137 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2138 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2139 - added section about "menus"
2140 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2141 the new documentation policy soon
2142 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2143 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2145 - added section about editors and pagers
2146 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2147 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2148 - added section about device files
2149 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2150 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2151 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2153 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2154 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2155 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2156 - Added new section about obsolete names
2157 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2158 * Fixed package's description
2160 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2162 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2166 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2168 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2171 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2172 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2173 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2175 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2177 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2180 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2181 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2183 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2184 and upload it "byhand" too.
2186 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2188 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2192 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2193 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2194 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2195 functionality must not have the same name.
2196 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2197 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2198 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2199 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2200 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2201 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2202 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2204 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2205 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2206 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2207 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2208 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2209 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2210 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2211 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2214 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2216 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2218 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2220 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2221 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2222 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2223 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2224 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2227 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2229 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2231 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2233 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2234 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2235 description of deb file format.
2236 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2237 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2239 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2241 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2242 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2244 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2246 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2248 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2249 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2250 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2251 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2252 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2253 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2254 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2255 packages in section on Procedure
2256 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2257 a package maintainer
2258 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2259 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2260 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2262 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2263 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2264 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2265 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2266 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2267 on various shlib files
2268 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2269 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2270 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2272 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2274 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2276 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2277 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2278 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2280 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2281 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2282 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2283 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2284 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2286 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2288 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2290 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2292 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2294 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2295 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2296 compatibility go in contrib.
2298 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2299 instructions in policy manual.
2300 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2303 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2305 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2307 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2308 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2309 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2310 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2312 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2313 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2316 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2318 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2320 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2321 * More detail about changelog format names.
2323 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2324 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2328 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2330 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2332 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2334 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2336 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2338 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2340 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2342 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2343 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2344 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2346 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2348 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2350 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2352 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2354 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2358 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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