1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
14 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
15 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
16 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
19 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification strings (11.1)
20 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
21 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
22 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
23 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
28 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
29 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
32 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 28 May 2011 22:39:06 +0200
34 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
37 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
40 Closes: #459868, #581011
41 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
42 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
44 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
47 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
49 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
52 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
54 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
57 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
61 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
62 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
65 Closes: #501930, #593909
66 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
71 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
72 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
73 machine. (Closes: #591857)
74 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
75 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
76 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
77 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
78 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
79 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
80 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
81 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
82 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
83 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
85 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
86 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
87 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
88 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
89 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
90 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
91 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
92 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
93 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
94 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
95 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
96 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
97 than the version in oldstable.
98 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
99 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
100 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
101 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
102 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
103 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
104 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
105 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
106 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
107 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
108 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
109 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
110 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
111 package. (Closes: #609160)
113 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
115 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
118 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
124 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
128 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
133 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
138 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
144 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
149 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
156 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
161 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
175 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
180 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
181 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
185 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
190 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
191 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
195 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
200 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
201 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
205 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
207 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
208 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
209 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
210 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
211 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
212 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
213 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
214 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
215 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
217 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
218 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
219 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
220 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
221 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
222 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
224 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
226 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
232 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
235 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
236 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
237 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
238 and distribution license' (three times).
239 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
240 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
245 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
247 Proposed by Santiago Vila
248 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
260 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
261 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
262 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
265 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
267 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
268 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
272 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
273 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
276 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
278 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
279 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
282 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
288 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
290 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
292 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
295 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
301 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
302 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
306 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
311 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
317 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
318 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
319 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
322 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
323 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
328 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
329 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
333 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
334 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
335 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
336 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
337 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
338 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
339 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
340 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
341 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
342 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
343 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
344 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
345 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
346 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
347 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
348 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
349 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
350 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
351 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
352 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
353 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
354 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
355 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
356 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
357 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
358 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
359 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
360 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
361 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
362 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
363 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
364 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
366 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
368 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
370 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
374 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
376 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
377 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
381 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
384 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
385 Wording: Steve Langasek.
386 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
387 Seconded: Julien Cristau
388 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
391 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
392 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
393 Seconded: Russ Allbery
394 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
397 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
398 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
399 Seconded: Russ Allbery
401 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
402 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
403 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
404 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
405 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
406 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
407 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
408 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
411 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
412 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
413 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
414 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
415 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
416 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
417 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
419 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
420 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
421 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
422 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
423 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
424 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
425 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
428 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
429 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
430 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
431 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
432 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
434 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
437 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
441 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
442 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
445 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
447 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
454 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
455 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
459 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
464 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
465 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
468 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
469 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
471 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
472 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
482 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
483 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
487 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
488 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
492 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
493 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
497 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
498 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
502 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
503 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
504 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
505 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
506 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
507 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
508 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
509 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
510 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
511 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
512 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
513 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
514 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
515 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
516 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
518 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
519 Source field descriptions.
520 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
521 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
522 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
523 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
524 description says otherwise.
526 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
528 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
532 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
535 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
536 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
539 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
543 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
544 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
548 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
549 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
553 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
554 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
555 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
556 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
560 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
561 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
562 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
563 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
564 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
566 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
567 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 * Add myself to Uploaders.
574 * Add myself to Uploaders.
575 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
577 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
578 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
579 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
581 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
583 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
586 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
593 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
600 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
603 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
605 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
611 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
615 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
616 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
618 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
620 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
623 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
625 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
626 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
627 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
630 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
631 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
635 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
636 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
639 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
641 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
642 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
643 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
644 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
645 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
646 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
647 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
648 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
649 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
650 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
651 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
652 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
653 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
654 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
655 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
656 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
657 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
658 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
659 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
660 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
661 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
662 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
663 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
664 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
665 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
666 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
667 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
668 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
669 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
670 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
672 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
673 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
674 links was completed long ago.
675 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
677 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
679 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
682 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
684 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
686 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
689 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
690 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
691 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
692 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
693 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
694 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
695 Millan (Closes: #209008).
696 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
697 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
699 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
701 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
703 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
704 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
705 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
706 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
707 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
708 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
709 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
711 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
712 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
713 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
714 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
716 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
717 Küster (Closes: #403391).
718 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
719 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
720 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
721 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
722 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
723 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
727 Closes: #186700, #458910
728 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
729 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
733 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
734 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
735 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
736 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
737 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
738 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
739 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
741 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
742 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
744 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
745 * Add an md5sums control file.
746 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
747 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
748 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
749 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
750 currently part of policy.
751 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
752 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
753 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
756 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
758 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
761 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
762 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
763 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
764 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
765 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
766 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
767 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
768 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
769 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
771 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
772 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
773 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
774 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
775 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
777 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
779 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
780 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
781 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
783 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
784 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
785 list?" (Closes: #412634).
786 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
787 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
788 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
789 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
790 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
791 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
792 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
793 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
794 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
795 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
796 debconf specification.
797 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
798 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
800 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
802 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
805 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
806 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
807 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
808 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
813 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
814 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
815 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
816 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
818 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
819 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
820 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
821 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
822 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
823 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
824 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
825 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
826 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
827 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
828 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
829 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
830 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
832 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
837 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
838 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
839 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
840 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
841 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
842 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
843 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
844 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
846 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
848 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
851 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
852 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
853 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
854 Polo (Closes: #372497).
855 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
856 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
858 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
859 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
860 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
861 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
863 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
865 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
867 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
869 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
870 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
871 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
872 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
873 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
874 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
876 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
878 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
881 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
882 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
883 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
886 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
888 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
890 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
893 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
894 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
895 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
896 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
897 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
898 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
899 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
900 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
901 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
903 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
904 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
906 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
907 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
908 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
910 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
912 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
913 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
916 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
918 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
921 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
923 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
924 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
925 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
926 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
927 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
928 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
929 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
930 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
931 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
932 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
933 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
934 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
935 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
936 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
937 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
938 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
939 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
941 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
942 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
943 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
944 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
945 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
946 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
947 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
949 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
950 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
951 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
952 Hess (Closes: #362247).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
954 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
955 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
956 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
957 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
958 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
959 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
960 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
961 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
962 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
963 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
964 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
967 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
970 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
972 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
973 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
974 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
975 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
976 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
977 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
978 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
979 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
981 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
983 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
987 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
989 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
991 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
992 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
993 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
995 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
996 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
997 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1001 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1003 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1004 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1006 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1008 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1010 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1011 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1012 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1014 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1015 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1016 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1018 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1021 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1023 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1026 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1027 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1028 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1030 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1031 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1033 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1035 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1037 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1041 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1042 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1043 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1044 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1046 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1047 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1048 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1049 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1051 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1052 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1053 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1055 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1056 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1057 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1058 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1059 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1060 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1061 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1063 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1064 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1065 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1066 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1069 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1070 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1071 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1072 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1073 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1074 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1075 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1078 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1079 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1080 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1082 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1083 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1084 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1085 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1086 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1087 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1088 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1089 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1090 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1091 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1092 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1093 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1095 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1097 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1101 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1102 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1103 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1104 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1105 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1106 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1107 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1108 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1110 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1111 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1112 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1113 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1114 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1115 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1116 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1117 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1118 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1119 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1120 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1121 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1123 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1124 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1125 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1129 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1130 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1133 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1134 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1135 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1137 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1138 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1139 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1140 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1141 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1142 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1144 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1145 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1147 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1148 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1149 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1150 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1151 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1152 Closes: #185943, #237049
1154 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1156 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1162 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1163 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1164 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1165 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1166 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1167 running. closes: Bug#187250
1168 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1169 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1170 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1171 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1172 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1173 user closes: Bug#176506
1175 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1177 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1181 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1182 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1183 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1184 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1185 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1186 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1187 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1188 deb-building toolchain.
1189 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1190 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1191 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1192 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1193 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1194 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1195 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1196 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1197 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1198 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1199 sections about changelog files.
1201 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1202 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1203 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1204 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1205 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1206 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1208 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1209 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1210 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1211 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1212 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1213 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1214 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1215 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1216 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1217 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1218 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1219 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1220 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1221 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1222 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1223 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1224 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1225 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1226 for the restructuring
1228 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1230 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1235 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1236 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1237 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1238 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1239 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1240 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1242 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1243 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1244 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1245 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1246 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1247 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1248 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1250 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1251 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1252 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1253 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1255 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1257 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1261 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1262 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1263 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1264 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1265 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1267 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1268 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1269 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1270 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1272 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1273 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1274 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1275 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1276 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1277 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1278 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1279 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1280 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1281 offtopic stuff, too.
1282 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1283 script should start it, closes: #60979
1284 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1285 "should", closes: #170019
1286 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1287 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1288 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1289 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1290 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1291 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1292 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1293 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1298 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1302 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1303 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1304 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1305 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1306 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1307 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1308 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1309 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1311 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1312 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1313 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1314 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1315 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1316 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1317 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1318 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1319 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1321 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1322 file, closes: Bug#65764
1324 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1326 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1329 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1330 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1331 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1332 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1333 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1334 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1335 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1336 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1337 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1338 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1339 details. closes: Bug#133030
1340 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1341 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1342 parts of Bug#161455.
1344 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1346 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1349 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1350 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1351 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1352 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1353 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1354 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1355 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1356 not. closes: Bug#139820
1357 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1358 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1359 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1360 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1361 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1362 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1363 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1364 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1365 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1366 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1368 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1370 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1371 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1372 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1373 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1374 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1375 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1376 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1377 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1378 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1379 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1380 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1381 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1382 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1383 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1384 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1385 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1386 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1387 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1388 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1389 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1391 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1392 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1393 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1394 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1395 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1396 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1397 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1399 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1400 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1401 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1402 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1403 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1404 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1405 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1406 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1407 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1409 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1411 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1414 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1415 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1416 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1417 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1418 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1419 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1420 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1421 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1422 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1423 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1424 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1425 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1426 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1427 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1428 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1429 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1430 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1431 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1432 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1433 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1434 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1435 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1439 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1442 medium, high, emergency.
1443 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1444 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1445 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1446 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1447 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1450 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1451 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1452 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1454 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1455 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1456 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1457 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1458 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1459 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1460 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1463 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1465 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1468 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1469 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1470 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1472 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1473 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1474 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1475 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1476 debian/rules to do this
1477 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1478 patches are incorporated upstream
1479 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1480 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1481 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1482 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1483 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1484 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1486 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1487 system closes: Bug#91249
1488 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1489 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1490 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1491 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1492 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1493 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1494 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1495 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1496 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1497 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1498 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1499 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1500 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1502 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1504 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1507 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1508 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1509 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1511 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1512 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1513 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1515 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1518 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1520 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1523 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1524 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1525 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1526 package for the time being
1527 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1528 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1529 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1530 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1531 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1532 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1533 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1534 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1535 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1536 Build-Depends arch syntax
1537 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1539 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1540 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1542 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1543 from policy maintenance duties.
1544 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1545 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1547 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1549 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1553 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1555 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1558 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1559 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1560 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1561 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1562 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1563 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1564 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1565 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1566 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1567 minor version number for this
1568 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1569 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1570 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1571 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1572 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1573 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1574 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1575 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1576 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1578 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1580 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1583 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1584 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1585 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1586 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1588 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1590 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1591 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1592 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1593 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1594 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1595 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1596 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1597 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1598 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1599 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1600 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1601 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1602 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1603 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1604 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1605 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1610 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1613 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1615 * Document the Enhances relationship
1616 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1617 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1618 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1619 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1620 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1621 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1623 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1625 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1626 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1627 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1628 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1630 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1631 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1632 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1633 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1634 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1636 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1638 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1641 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1642 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1644 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1645 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1646 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1647 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1648 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1649 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1650 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1651 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1652 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1654 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1656 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1658 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1661 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1662 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1663 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1664 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1665 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1666 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1667 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1668 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1669 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1670 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1671 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1672 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1673 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1674 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1675 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1676 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1677 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1678 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1679 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1680 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1681 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1683 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1684 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1686 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1688 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1691 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1692 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1693 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1694 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1695 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1696 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1697 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1698 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1699 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1700 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1701 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1702 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1703 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1704 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1705 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1706 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1707 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1708 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1709 list closes: Bug#53756
1710 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1711 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1712 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1713 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1714 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1715 policy closes: Bug#53760
1716 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1717 policy closes: Bug#53761
1718 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1719 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1720 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1721 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1722 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1723 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1724 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1725 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1726 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1727 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1728 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1730 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1731 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1732 to install with older fileutils.
1733 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1734 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1735 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1736 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1738 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1739 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1743 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1746 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1750 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1753 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1755 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1758 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1761 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1763 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1765 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1767 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1770 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1772 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1774 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1777 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1778 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1779 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1780 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1781 directoried (closes: #41547)
1782 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1783 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1784 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1785 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1786 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1787 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1788 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1789 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1790 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1791 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1792 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1794 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1795 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1796 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1797 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1798 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1799 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1800 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1802 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1803 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1804 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1805 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1807 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1809 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1811 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1812 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1814 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1816 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1819 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1821 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1823 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1826 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1828 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1829 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1830 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1831 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1832 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1833 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1834 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1835 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1836 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1837 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1838 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1839 this closes: Bug#38612
1840 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1841 before. closes: Bug#40864
1843 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1845 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1848 officially uploaded.
1849 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1851 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1852 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1853 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1855 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1856 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1857 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1858 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1859 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1860 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1862 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1863 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1864 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1866 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1868 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1869 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1870 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1871 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1872 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1876 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1879 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1880 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1881 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1882 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1883 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1884 there). closes: Bug#34233
1885 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1886 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1887 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1888 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1889 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1891 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1893 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1896 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1897 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1898 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1901 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1902 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1903 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1904 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1905 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1908 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1909 number. closes: BUG#25911
1911 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1912 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1913 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1914 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1915 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1916 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1918 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1919 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1920 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1923 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1924 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1925 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1927 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1928 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1929 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1930 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1932 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1933 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1934 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1936 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1938 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1939 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1940 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1941 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1942 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1943 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1944 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1945 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1948 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1950 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1951 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1954 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1956 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1960 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1962 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1965 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1966 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1967 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1968 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1969 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1970 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1971 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1973 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1974 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1976 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1978 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1980 * non-maintainer release
1981 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1982 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1984 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1985 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1986 * no content changes
1987 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1989 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1991 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1995 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1997 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2001 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2002 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2003 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2005 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2006 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2008 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2009 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2010 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2011 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2013 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2014 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2015 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2016 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2017 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2018 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2019 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2021 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2022 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2023 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2026 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2027 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2028 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2030 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2031 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2032 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2034 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2035 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2037 * New version numbering scheme:
2039 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2040 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2041 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2044 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2045 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2046 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2047 differ between the manuals.
2049 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2050 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2051 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2052 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2054 * Packaging changes:
2056 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2057 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2059 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2061 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2063 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2067 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2068 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2069 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2071 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2072 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2075 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2076 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2077 file extension as the referenced file
2079 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2080 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2082 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2083 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2084 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2085 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2088 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2089 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2090 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2092 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2093 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2094 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2095 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2098 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2099 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2102 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2103 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2104 reasonable default configuration
2106 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2107 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2108 by all news servers and clients
2110 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2111 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2112 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2113 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2114 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2116 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2117 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2120 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2122 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2123 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2125 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2128 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2129 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2131 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2132 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2134 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2136 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2138 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2141 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2142 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2143 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2145 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2147 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2148 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2149 * Don't use debstd anymore
2151 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2153 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2156 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2157 contrib/non-free policy
2158 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2159 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2160 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2161 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2162 - new section about `Daemons'
2163 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2164 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2165 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2166 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2167 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2168 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2169 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2170 * SGML source code included in package
2171 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2173 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2175 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2178 - completely reworked structure
2179 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2180 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2181 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2182 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2183 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2184 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2185 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2186 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2187 - mention "orphaned packages"
2188 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2189 distributions' policy
2190 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2191 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2192 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2193 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2194 - added section about arch spec strings
2195 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2196 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2197 - added section about "menus"
2198 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2199 the new documentation policy soon
2200 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2201 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2203 - added section about editors and pagers
2204 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2205 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2206 - added section about device files
2207 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2208 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2209 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2211 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2212 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2213 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2214 - Added new section about obsolete names
2215 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2216 * Fixed package's description
2218 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2220 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2224 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2226 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2229 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2230 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2231 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2233 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2235 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2238 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2239 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2241 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2242 and upload it "byhand" too.
2244 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2246 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2250 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2251 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2252 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2253 functionality must not have the same name.
2254 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2255 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2256 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2257 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2258 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2259 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2260 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2262 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2263 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2264 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2265 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2266 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2267 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2268 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2269 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2272 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2274 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2276 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2278 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2279 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2280 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2281 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2282 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2285 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2287 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2289 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2291 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2292 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2293 description of deb file format.
2294 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2295 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2297 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2299 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2300 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2302 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2304 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2306 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2307 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2308 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2309 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2310 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2311 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2312 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2313 packages in section on Procedure
2314 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2315 a package maintainer
2316 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2317 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2318 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2320 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2321 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2322 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2323 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2324 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2325 on various shlib files
2326 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2327 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2328 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2330 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2332 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2334 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2335 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2336 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2338 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2339 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2340 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2341 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2342 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2344 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2346 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2348 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2350 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2352 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2353 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2354 compatibility go in contrib.
2356 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2357 instructions in policy manual.
2358 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2361 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2363 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2365 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2366 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2367 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2368 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2370 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2371 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2374 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2376 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2378 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2379 * More detail about changelog format names.
2381 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2382 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2386 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2388 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2390 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2392 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2394 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2396 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2398 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2400 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2401 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2402 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2404 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2406 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2408 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2410 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2412 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2416 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100