1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.
5 * debian/control, Makefile:
6 - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663
7 - migrate to openjade and opensp.
8 * debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478
9 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
10 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
15 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
16 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
21 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
22 the debian/control file of a source package.
23 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
27 * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network
29 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
33 * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
34 in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
39 [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
40 * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,
41 as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests
44 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:03:51 +0100
46 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
49 for the help. Closes: #769219
51 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
53 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
56 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
57 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
59 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
60 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
61 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
62 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
63 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
64 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
65 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
66 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
67 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
69 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
72 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
78 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
79 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
83 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
84 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
88 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
89 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
93 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
95 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
101 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
103 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
110 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
111 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
113 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
116 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
120 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
121 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
122 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
125 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
126 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
128 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
131 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
132 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
133 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
134 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
136 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
141 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
144 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
148 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
149 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
154 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
155 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
159 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
160 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
162 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
167 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
168 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
172 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
176 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
177 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
179 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
181 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
182 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
183 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
188 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
192 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
193 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
195 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
198 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
199 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
202 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
203 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
204 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
207 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
208 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
209 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
210 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
212 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
213 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
214 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
215 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
216 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
217 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
218 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
219 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
220 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
221 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
222 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
223 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
225 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
226 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
227 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
228 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
230 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
232 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
234 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
235 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
236 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
238 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
239 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
240 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
246 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
247 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
252 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
256 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
257 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
258 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
259 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
263 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
264 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
269 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
270 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
271 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
275 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
276 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
279 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
280 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
285 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
287 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
290 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
291 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
292 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
293 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
295 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
296 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
297 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
298 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
299 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
300 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
301 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
302 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
303 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
304 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
305 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
306 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
307 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
308 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
309 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
310 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
311 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
313 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
314 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
315 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
316 good to know which version one is looking at.
317 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
318 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
319 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
320 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
321 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
322 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
323 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
325 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
326 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
327 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
328 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
329 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
331 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
332 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
333 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
335 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
336 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
337 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
338 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
340 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
342 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
346 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
347 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
348 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
349 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
350 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
351 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
352 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
353 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
354 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
355 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
360 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
361 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
366 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
367 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
371 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
373 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
374 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
378 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
382 Closes: #620870, #532120
383 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
384 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
389 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
390 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
391 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
395 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
396 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
397 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
398 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
399 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
401 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
402 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
403 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
404 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
405 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
406 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
407 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
408 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
409 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
410 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
411 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
412 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
413 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
414 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
415 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
416 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
418 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
420 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
421 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
422 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
423 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
424 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
425 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
426 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
427 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
428 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
429 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
432 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
434 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
435 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
436 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
437 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
442 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
443 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
445 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
446 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
447 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
448 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
451 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
453 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
457 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
458 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
459 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
462 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
463 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
464 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
466 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
467 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
473 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
474 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
475 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
478 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
479 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
484 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
485 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
486 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
487 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
490 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
491 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
492 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
495 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
496 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
501 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
503 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
509 Closes: #459868, #581011
510 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
511 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
513 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
515 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
516 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
518 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
520 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
521 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
523 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
525 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
526 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
531 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
534 Closes: #501930, #593909
535 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
540 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
541 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
542 machine. (Closes: #591857)
543 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
544 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
545 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
546 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
547 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
548 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
549 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
550 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
551 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
552 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
554 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
555 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
556 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
557 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
558 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
559 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
560 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
561 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
562 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
563 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
564 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
565 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
566 than the version in oldstable.
567 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
568 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
569 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
570 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
571 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
572 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
573 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
574 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
575 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
576 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
577 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
578 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
579 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
580 package. (Closes: #609160)
582 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
584 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
592 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
597 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
607 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
612 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
625 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
627 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
630 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
632 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
633 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
638 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
644 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
645 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
649 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
650 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
654 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
659 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
660 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
664 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
665 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
669 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
670 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
674 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
676 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
677 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
678 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
679 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
680 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
681 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
682 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
683 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
684 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
686 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
687 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
688 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
689 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
690 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
691 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
693 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
695 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
701 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
704 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
705 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
706 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
707 and distribution license' (three times).
708 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
709 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
714 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
716 Proposed by Santiago Vila
717 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
724 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
725 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
729 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
730 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
731 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
734 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
736 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
737 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
741 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
742 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
745 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
747 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
748 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
751 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
753 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
754 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
757 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
759 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
760 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
761 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
764 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
765 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
770 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
771 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
775 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
776 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
780 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
781 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
782 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
786 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
787 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
788 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
791 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
792 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
797 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
798 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
802 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
803 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
804 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
805 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
806 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
807 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
808 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
809 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
810 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
811 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
812 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
813 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
814 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
815 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
816 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
817 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
818 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
819 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
820 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
821 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
822 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
823 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
824 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
825 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
826 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
827 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
828 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
829 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
830 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
831 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
832 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
833 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
835 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
837 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
839 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
843 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
845 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
846 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
850 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
853 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
854 Wording: Steve Langasek.
855 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
856 Seconded: Julien Cristau
857 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
860 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
861 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
862 Seconded: Russ Allbery
863 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
866 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
867 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
868 Seconded: Russ Allbery
870 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
871 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
872 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
873 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
874 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
875 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
876 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
877 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
880 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
881 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
882 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
883 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
884 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
885 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
886 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
888 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
889 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
890 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
891 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
892 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
893 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
894 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
897 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
898 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
899 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
900 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
901 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
903 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
906 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
907 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
910 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
911 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
914 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
916 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
919 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
921 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
923 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
924 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
925 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
928 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
929 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
931 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
933 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
934 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
937 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
938 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
940 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
941 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
946 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
947 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
951 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
952 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
954 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
956 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
957 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
959 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
961 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
962 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
966 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
967 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
969 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
971 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
972 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
973 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
974 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
975 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
976 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
977 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
978 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
979 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
980 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
981 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
982 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
983 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
984 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
985 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
987 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
988 Source field descriptions.
989 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
990 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
991 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
992 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
993 description says otherwise.
995 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
997 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
1001 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1002 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
1004 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1005 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1007 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
1008 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1010 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1012 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
1013 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1015 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1017 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
1018 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1022 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1023 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1024 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1025 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1029 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1030 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1031 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1032 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1033 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1035 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1036 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1037 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1038 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1040 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1043 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1044 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1046 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1047 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1048 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1050 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1052 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1055 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1056 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1057 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1059 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1060 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1062 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1064 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1065 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1066 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1067 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1069 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1070 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1071 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1072 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1074 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1075 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1076 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1077 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1079 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1080 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1081 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1082 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1084 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1085 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1086 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1087 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1089 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1090 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1091 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1092 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1094 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1095 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1096 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1097 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1099 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1100 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1101 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1102 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1104 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1105 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1106 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1107 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1108 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1110 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1111 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1112 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1113 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1114 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1115 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1116 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1117 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1118 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1119 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1120 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1121 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1122 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1123 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1124 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1125 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1126 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1127 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1128 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1129 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1130 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1131 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1132 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1133 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1134 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1135 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1136 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1137 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1138 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1139 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1141 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1142 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1143 links was completed long ago.
1144 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1146 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1148 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1151 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1153 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1155 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1158 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1159 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1160 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1161 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1162 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1163 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1164 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1165 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1166 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1168 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1170 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1172 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1173 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1174 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1175 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1176 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1177 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1178 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1180 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1181 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1182 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1183 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1185 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1186 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1187 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1188 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1189 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1190 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1191 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1193 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1194 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1195 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1196 Closes: #186700, #458910
1197 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1198 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1199 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1201 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1202 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1203 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1204 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1205 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1206 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1207 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1210 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1211 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1213 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1214 * Add an md5sums control file.
1215 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1216 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1217 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1218 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1219 currently part of policy.
1220 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1221 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1222 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1225 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1227 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1230 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1231 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1232 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1233 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1234 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1235 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1236 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1237 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1238 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1240 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1241 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1242 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1243 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1244 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1246 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1248 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1249 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1250 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1252 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1253 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1254 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1255 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1256 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1257 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1258 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1259 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1260 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1261 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1262 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1263 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1264 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1265 debconf specification.
1266 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1267 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1269 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1271 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1274 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1276 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1277 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1282 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1283 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1284 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1285 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1287 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1288 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1289 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1290 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1291 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1292 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1293 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1294 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1295 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1296 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1297 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1298 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1299 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1301 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1307 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1308 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1309 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1311 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1312 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1313 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1317 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1320 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1321 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1323 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1325 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1328 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1329 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1330 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1332 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1334 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1336 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1338 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1339 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1340 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1341 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1342 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1343 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1345 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1347 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1350 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1351 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1352 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1355 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1357 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1359 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1362 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1363 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1364 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1365 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1366 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1367 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1368 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1369 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1370 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1372 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1373 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1375 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1376 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1377 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1379 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1380 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1381 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1382 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1385 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1387 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1390 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1392 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1393 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1394 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1395 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1396 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1397 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1398 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1399 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1400 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1401 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1402 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1403 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1404 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1405 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1406 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1407 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1408 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1409 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1410 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1411 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1412 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1413 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1414 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1415 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1416 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1418 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1419 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1420 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1421 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1423 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1424 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1425 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1426 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1427 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1428 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1429 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1430 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1431 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1432 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1433 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1436 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1439 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1441 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1442 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1443 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1444 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1445 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1446 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1447 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1448 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1450 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1452 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1456 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1458 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1459 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1460 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1461 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1462 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1464 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1465 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1466 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1469 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1470 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1471 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1472 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1473 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1475 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1476 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1477 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1479 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1481 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1483 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1484 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1485 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1487 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1492 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1495 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1496 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1497 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1499 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1500 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1501 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1502 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1504 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1506 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1510 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1511 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1512 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1513 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1514 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1515 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1516 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1517 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1518 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1520 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1521 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1522 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1524 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1525 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1526 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1527 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1528 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1529 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1530 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1532 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1533 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1534 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1535 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1537 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1538 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1539 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1540 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1541 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1542 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1543 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1544 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1547 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1548 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1549 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1551 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1552 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1553 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1554 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1555 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1556 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1557 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1558 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1559 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1560 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1561 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1562 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1564 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1566 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1570 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1571 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1572 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1573 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1574 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1575 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1576 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1577 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1579 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1580 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1581 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1582 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1583 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1584 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1585 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1586 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1587 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1588 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1589 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1590 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1591 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1592 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1593 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1594 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1595 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1597 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1598 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1599 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1602 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1603 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1604 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1606 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1607 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1608 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1609 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1610 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1611 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1613 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1614 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1616 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1617 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1618 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1619 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1620 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1621 Closes: #185943, #237049
1623 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1625 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1631 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1632 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1633 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1634 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1635 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1636 running. closes: Bug#187250
1637 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1638 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1639 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1640 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1641 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1642 user closes: Bug#176506
1644 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1646 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1650 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1651 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1652 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1653 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1654 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1655 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1656 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1657 deb-building toolchain.
1658 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1659 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1660 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1661 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1662 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1663 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1664 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1665 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1666 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1667 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1668 sections about changelog files.
1670 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1671 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1672 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1673 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1674 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1675 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1677 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1678 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1679 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1680 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1681 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1682 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1683 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1684 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1685 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1686 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1687 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1688 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1689 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1690 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1691 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1692 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1693 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1694 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1695 for the restructuring
1697 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1699 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1704 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1705 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1706 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1707 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1708 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1709 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1711 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1712 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1713 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1714 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1715 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1716 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1717 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1719 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1720 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1721 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1722 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1724 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1726 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1730 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1731 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1732 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1733 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1734 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1736 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1737 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1738 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1739 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1741 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1742 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1743 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1744 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1745 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1746 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1747 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1748 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1749 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1750 offtopic stuff, too.
1751 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1752 script should start it, closes: #60979
1753 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1754 "should", closes: #170019
1755 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1756 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1757 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1758 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1759 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1760 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1761 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1762 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1765 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1767 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1771 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1772 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1773 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1774 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1775 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1776 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1777 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1778 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1780 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1781 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1782 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1783 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1784 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1785 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1786 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1787 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1788 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1790 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1791 file, closes: Bug#65764
1793 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1795 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1798 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1799 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1800 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1801 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1802 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1803 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1804 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1805 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1806 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1807 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1808 details. closes: Bug#133030
1809 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1810 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1811 parts of Bug#161455.
1813 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1815 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1818 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1819 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1820 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1821 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1822 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1823 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1824 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1825 not. closes: Bug#139820
1826 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1827 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1828 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1829 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1830 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1831 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1832 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1833 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1834 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1835 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1837 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1839 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1840 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1841 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1842 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1843 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1844 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1845 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1846 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1847 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1848 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1849 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1850 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1851 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1852 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1853 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1854 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1855 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1856 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1857 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1858 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1860 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1861 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1862 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1863 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1864 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1865 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1866 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1868 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1869 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1870 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1871 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1872 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1873 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1874 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1875 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1876 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1878 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1880 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1883 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1884 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1885 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1886 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1887 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1888 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1889 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1890 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1891 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1892 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1893 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1894 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1895 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1896 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1897 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1898 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1899 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1900 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1901 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1902 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1903 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1904 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1906 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1908 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1911 medium, high, emergency.
1912 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1913 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1914 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1915 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1916 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1919 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1920 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1921 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1923 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1924 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1925 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1926 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1927 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1928 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1929 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1932 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1934 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1937 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1938 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1939 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1941 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1942 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1943 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1944 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1945 debian/rules to do this
1946 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1947 patches are incorporated upstream
1948 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1949 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1950 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1951 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1952 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1953 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1955 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1956 system closes: Bug#91249
1957 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1958 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1959 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1960 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1961 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1962 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1963 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1964 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1965 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1966 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1967 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1968 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1969 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1971 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1973 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1976 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1977 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1978 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1980 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1981 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1982 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1984 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1987 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1989 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1992 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1993 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1994 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1995 package for the time being
1996 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1997 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1998 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1999 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
2000 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
2001 * Rename all .text files as .txt
2002 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
2003 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
2004 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
2005 Build-Depends arch syntax
2006 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
2008 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
2009 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
2011 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
2012 from policy maintenance duties.
2013 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
2014 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
2016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
2018 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2022 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2024 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2027 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2028 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2029 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2030 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2031 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2032 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2033 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2034 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2035 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2036 minor version number for this
2037 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2038 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2039 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2040 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2041 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2042 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2043 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2044 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2045 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2047 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2049 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2052 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2053 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2054 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2055 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2057 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2059 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2060 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2061 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2062 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2063 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2064 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2065 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2066 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2067 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2068 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2069 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2070 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2071 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2072 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2073 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2074 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2077 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2079 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2082 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2084 * Document the Enhances relationship
2085 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2086 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2087 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2088 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2089 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2090 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2092 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2094 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2095 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2096 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2097 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2099 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2100 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2101 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2102 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2103 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2105 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2107 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2110 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2111 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2113 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2114 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2115 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2116 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2117 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2118 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2119 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2120 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2121 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2123 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2125 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2127 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2130 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2131 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2132 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2133 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2134 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2135 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2136 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2137 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2138 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2139 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2140 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2141 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2142 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2143 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2144 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2145 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2146 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2147 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2148 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2149 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2150 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2152 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2153 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2155 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2157 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2160 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2161 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2162 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2163 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2164 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2165 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2166 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2167 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2168 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2169 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2170 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2171 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2172 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2173 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2174 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2175 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2176 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2177 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2178 list closes: Bug#53756
2179 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2180 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2181 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2182 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2183 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2184 policy closes: Bug#53760
2185 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2186 policy closes: Bug#53761
2187 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2188 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2189 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2190 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2191 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2192 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2193 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2194 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2195 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2196 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2197 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2199 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2200 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2201 to install with older fileutils.
2202 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2203 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2204 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2205 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2207 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2208 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2210 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2212 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2215 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2217 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2219 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2222 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2224 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2227 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2230 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2232 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2234 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2236 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2239 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2241 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2243 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2246 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2247 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2248 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2249 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2250 directoried (closes: #41547)
2251 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2252 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2253 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2254 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2255 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2256 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2257 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2258 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2259 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2260 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2261 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2263 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2264 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2265 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2266 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2267 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2268 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2269 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2271 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2272 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2273 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2274 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2276 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2278 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2280 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2281 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2283 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2285 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2288 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2290 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2292 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2295 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2297 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2298 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2299 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2300 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2301 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2302 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2303 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2304 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2305 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2306 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2307 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2308 this closes: Bug#38612
2309 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2310 before. closes: Bug#40864
2312 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2314 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2317 officially uploaded.
2318 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2320 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2321 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2322 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2324 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2325 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2326 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2327 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2328 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2329 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2331 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2332 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2333 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2335 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2337 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2338 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2339 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2340 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2341 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2343 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2345 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2348 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2349 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2350 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2351 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2352 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2353 there). closes: Bug#34233
2354 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2355 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2356 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2357 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2358 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2360 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2362 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2365 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2366 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2367 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2370 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2371 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2372 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2373 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2374 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2377 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2378 number. closes: BUG#25911
2380 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2381 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2382 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2383 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2384 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2385 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2387 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2388 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2389 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2392 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2393 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2394 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2396 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2397 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2398 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2399 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2401 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2402 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2403 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2405 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2407 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2408 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2409 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2410 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2411 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2412 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2413 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2414 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2417 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2419 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2420 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2423 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2425 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2429 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2431 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2434 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2435 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2436 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2437 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2438 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2439 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2440 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2442 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2443 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2445 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2447 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2449 * non-maintainer release
2450 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2451 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2453 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2454 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2455 * no content changes
2456 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2458 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2460 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2464 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2466 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2470 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2471 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2472 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2474 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2475 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2477 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2478 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2479 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2480 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2482 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2483 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2484 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2485 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2486 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2487 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2488 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2490 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2491 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2492 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2495 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2496 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2497 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2499 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2500 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2501 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2503 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2504 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2506 * New version numbering scheme:
2508 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2509 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2510 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2513 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2514 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2515 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2516 differ between the manuals.
2518 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2519 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2520 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2521 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2523 * Packaging changes:
2525 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2526 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2528 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2530 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2532 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2536 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2537 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2538 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2540 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2541 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2544 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2545 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2546 file extension as the referenced file
2548 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2549 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2551 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2552 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2553 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2554 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2557 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2558 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2559 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2561 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2562 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2563 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2564 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2567 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2568 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2571 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2572 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2573 reasonable default configuration
2575 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2576 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2577 by all news servers and clients
2579 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2580 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2581 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2582 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2583 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2585 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2586 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2589 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2591 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2592 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2594 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2597 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2598 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2600 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2601 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2603 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2605 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2607 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2610 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2611 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2612 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2614 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2616 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2617 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2618 * Don't use debstd anymore
2620 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2622 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2625 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2626 contrib/non-free policy
2627 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2628 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2629 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2630 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2631 - new section about `Daemons'
2632 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2633 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2634 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2635 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2636 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2637 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2638 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2639 * SGML source code included in package
2640 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2642 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2644 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2647 - completely reworked structure
2648 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2649 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2650 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2651 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2652 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2653 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2654 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2655 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2656 - mention "orphaned packages"
2657 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2658 distributions' policy
2659 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2660 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2661 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2662 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2663 - added section about arch spec strings
2664 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2665 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2666 - added section about "menus"
2667 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2668 the new documentation policy soon
2669 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2670 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2672 - added section about editors and pagers
2673 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2674 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2675 - added section about device files
2676 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2677 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2678 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2680 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2681 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2682 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2683 - Added new section about obsolete names
2684 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2685 * Fixed package's description
2687 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2689 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2693 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2695 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2698 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2699 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2700 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2702 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2704 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2707 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2708 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2710 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2711 and upload it "byhand" too.
2713 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2715 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2719 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2720 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2721 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2722 functionality must not have the same name.
2723 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2724 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2725 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2726 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2727 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2728 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2729 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2731 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2732 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2733 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2734 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2735 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2736 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2737 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2738 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2741 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2743 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2745 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2747 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2748 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2749 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2750 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2751 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2754 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2756 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2758 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2760 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2761 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2762 description of deb file format.
2763 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2764 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2766 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2768 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2769 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2771 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2773 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2775 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2776 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2777 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2778 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2779 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2780 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2781 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2782 packages in section on Procedure
2783 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2784 a package maintainer
2785 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2786 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2787 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2789 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2790 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2791 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2792 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2793 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2794 on various shlib files
2795 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2796 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2797 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2799 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2801 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2803 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2804 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2805 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2807 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2808 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2809 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2810 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2811 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2813 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2815 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2817 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2819 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2821 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2822 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2823 compatibility go in contrib.
2825 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2826 instructions in policy manual.
2827 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2830 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2832 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2834 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2835 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2836 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2837 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2839 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2840 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2843 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2845 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2847 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2848 * More detail about changelog format names.
2850 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2851 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2855 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2857 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2859 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2861 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2863 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2865 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2867 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2869 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2870 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2871 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2873 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2875 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2877 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2879 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2881 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2885 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100