1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
5 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
6 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
7 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
10 * Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8). Closes: #621479
11 Proposed by: Justin B Rye.
12 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
17 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 20:31:54 +0200
19 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
22 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
25 Closes: #459868, #581011
26 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
27 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
29 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
32 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
34 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
37 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
39 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
41 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
42 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
47 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
50 Closes: #501930, #593909
51 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
56 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
57 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
58 machine. (Closes: #591857)
59 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
60 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
61 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
62 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
63 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
64 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
65 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
66 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
67 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
68 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
70 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
71 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
72 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
73 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
74 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
75 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
76 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
77 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
78 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
79 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
80 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
81 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
82 than the version in oldstable.
83 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
84 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
85 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
86 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
87 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
88 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
89 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
90 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
91 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
92 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
93 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
94 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
95 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
96 package. (Closes: #609160)
98 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
100 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
108 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
113 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
118 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
124 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
128 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
133 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
138 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
141 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
144 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
146 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
149 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
154 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
155 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
160 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
161 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
165 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
166 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
171 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
175 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
181 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
185 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
190 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
192 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
193 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
194 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
195 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
196 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
197 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
198 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
199 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
200 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
202 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
203 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
204 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
205 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
206 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
207 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
209 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
211 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
217 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
220 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
221 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
222 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
223 and distribution license' (three times).
224 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
225 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
230 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
232 Proposed by Santiago Vila
233 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
240 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
245 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
246 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
247 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
250 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
257 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
258 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
261 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
263 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
264 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
267 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
269 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
270 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
273 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
275 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
276 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
277 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
280 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
281 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
291 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
296 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
297 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
298 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
302 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
303 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
304 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
307 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
308 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
313 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
314 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
318 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
319 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
320 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
321 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
322 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
323 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
324 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
325 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
326 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
327 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
328 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
329 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
330 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
331 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
332 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
333 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
334 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
335 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
336 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
337 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
338 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
339 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
340 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
341 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
342 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
343 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
344 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
345 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
346 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
347 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
348 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
349 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
351 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
353 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
355 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
359 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
361 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
362 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
366 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
369 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
370 Wording: Steve Langasek.
371 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
372 Seconded: Julien Cristau
373 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
376 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
377 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
378 Seconded: Russ Allbery
379 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
382 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
383 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
384 Seconded: Russ Allbery
386 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
387 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
388 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
389 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
390 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
391 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
392 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
393 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
396 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
397 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
398 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
399 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
400 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
401 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
402 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
404 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
405 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
406 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
407 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
408 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
409 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
413 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
414 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
415 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
416 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
417 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
419 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
422 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
426 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
427 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
430 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
432 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
439 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
440 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
444 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
450 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
453 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
454 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
456 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
457 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
468 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
472 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
482 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
483 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
487 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
488 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
489 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
490 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
491 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
492 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
493 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
494 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
495 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
496 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
497 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
498 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
499 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
500 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
501 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
503 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
504 Source field descriptions.
505 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
506 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
507 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
508 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
509 description says otherwise.
511 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
513 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
517 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
520 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
521 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
523 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
524 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
528 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
533 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
534 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
538 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
539 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
540 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
541 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
545 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
546 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
547 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
548 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
549 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
551 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
552 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
556 * Add myself to Uploaders.
559 * Add myself to Uploaders.
560 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
562 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
563 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
564 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
566 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
568 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
571 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
576 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
578 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
580 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
581 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
585 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
586 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
588 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
590 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
600 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
603 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
605 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
608 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
611 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
612 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
615 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
616 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
620 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
624 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
626 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
627 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
628 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
629 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
630 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
631 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
632 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
633 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
634 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
635 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
636 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
637 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
638 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
639 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
640 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
641 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
642 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
643 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
644 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
645 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
646 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
647 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
648 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
649 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
650 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
651 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
652 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
653 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
654 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
655 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
657 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
658 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
659 links was completed long ago.
660 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
662 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
664 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
667 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
669 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
671 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
674 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
675 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
676 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
677 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
678 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
679 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
680 Millan (Closes: #209008).
681 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
682 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
684 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
686 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
688 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
689 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
690 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
691 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
692 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
693 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
694 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
696 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
697 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
698 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
699 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
701 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
702 Küster (Closes: #403391).
703 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
704 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
705 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
706 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
707 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
712 Closes: #186700, #458910
713 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
714 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
718 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
719 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
720 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
721 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
722 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
723 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
724 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
726 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
727 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
729 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
730 * Add an md5sums control file.
731 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
732 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
733 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
734 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
735 currently part of policy.
736 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
737 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
738 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
741 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
743 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
746 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
747 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
748 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
749 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
750 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
751 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
752 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
753 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
754 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
755 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
756 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
757 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
758 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
759 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
760 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
762 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
764 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
765 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
766 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
768 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
769 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
770 list?" (Closes: #412634).
771 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
772 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
773 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
774 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
775 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
776 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
777 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
778 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
779 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
780 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
781 debconf specification.
782 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
783 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
785 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
787 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
790 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
791 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
792 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
793 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
798 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
799 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
800 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
801 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
803 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
804 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
805 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
806 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
807 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
808 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
809 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
810 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
811 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
812 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
813 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
814 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
815 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
817 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
818 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
823 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
824 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
825 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
827 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
828 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
829 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
831 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
833 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
836 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
837 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
838 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
839 Polo (Closes: #372497).
840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
841 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
844 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
845 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
846 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
848 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
849 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
850 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
852 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
854 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
855 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
856 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
857 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
858 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
859 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
861 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
863 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
866 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
867 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
868 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
870 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
871 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
875 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
878 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
879 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
880 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
881 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
882 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
883 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
884 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
885 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
886 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
888 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
889 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
891 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
892 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
893 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
895 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
897 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
898 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
901 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
903 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
906 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
908 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
909 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
910 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
911 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
912 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
913 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
914 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
915 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
916 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
917 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
918 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
919 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
920 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
921 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
922 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
923 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
924 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
926 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
927 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
928 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
929 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
930 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
931 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
932 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
934 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
935 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
936 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
937 Hess (Closes: #362247).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
939 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
940 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
941 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
942 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
943 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
944 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
945 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
946 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
947 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
948 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
949 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
951 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
952 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
955 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
957 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
958 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
959 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
960 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
961 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
962 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
963 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
964 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
966 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
968 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
972 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
974 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
976 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
977 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
978 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
980 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
981 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
982 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
985 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
986 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
988 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
989 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
991 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
993 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
995 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
997 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
999 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1000 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1001 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1003 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1006 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1008 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1011 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1012 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1013 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1015 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1016 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1018 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1020 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1022 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1026 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1027 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1028 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1029 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1031 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1032 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1033 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1034 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1037 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1038 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1041 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1042 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1043 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1044 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1045 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1046 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1048 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1049 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1050 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1051 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1054 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1055 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1056 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1057 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1058 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1059 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1060 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1063 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1064 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1065 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1067 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1068 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1069 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1070 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1071 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1072 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1073 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1074 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1075 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1076 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1077 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1078 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1080 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1082 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1086 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1087 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1088 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1089 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1090 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1091 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1092 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1093 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1095 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1096 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1097 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1098 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1099 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1100 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1101 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1102 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1103 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1104 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1105 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1106 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1108 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1109 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1110 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1114 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1115 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1118 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1119 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1120 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1122 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1123 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1124 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1125 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1126 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1127 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1129 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1130 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1132 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1133 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1134 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1135 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1136 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1137 Closes: #185943, #237049
1139 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1141 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1147 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1148 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1149 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1150 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1151 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1152 running. closes: Bug#187250
1153 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1154 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1155 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1156 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1157 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1158 user closes: Bug#176506
1160 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1162 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1166 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1167 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1168 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1169 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1170 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1171 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1172 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1173 deb-building toolchain.
1174 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1175 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1176 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1177 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1178 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1179 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1180 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1181 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1182 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1183 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1184 sections about changelog files.
1186 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1187 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1188 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1189 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1190 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1191 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1193 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1194 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1195 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1196 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1197 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1198 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1199 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1200 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1201 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1202 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1203 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1204 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1205 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1206 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1207 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1208 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1209 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1210 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1211 for the restructuring
1213 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1215 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1220 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1221 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1222 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1223 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1224 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1225 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1227 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1228 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1229 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1230 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1231 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1232 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1233 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1235 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1236 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1237 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1238 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1240 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1242 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1246 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1247 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1248 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1249 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1250 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1252 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1253 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1254 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1255 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1257 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1258 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1259 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1260 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1261 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1262 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1263 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1264 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1265 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1266 offtopic stuff, too.
1267 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1268 script should start it, closes: #60979
1269 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1270 "should", closes: #170019
1271 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1272 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1273 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1274 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1275 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1276 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1277 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1278 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1283 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1287 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1288 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1289 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1290 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1291 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1292 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1293 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1294 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1296 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1297 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1298 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1299 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1300 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1301 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1302 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1303 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1304 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1306 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1307 file, closes: Bug#65764
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1311 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1314 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1315 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1316 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1317 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1318 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1319 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1320 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1321 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1322 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1323 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1324 details. closes: Bug#133030
1325 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1326 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1327 parts of Bug#161455.
1329 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1331 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1334 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1335 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1336 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1337 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1338 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1339 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1340 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1341 not. closes: Bug#139820
1342 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1343 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1344 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1345 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1346 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1347 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1348 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1349 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1350 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1351 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1353 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1355 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1356 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1357 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1358 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1359 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1360 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1361 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1362 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1363 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1364 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1365 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1366 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1367 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1368 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1369 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1370 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1371 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1372 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1373 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1374 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1376 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1377 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1378 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1379 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1380 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1381 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1382 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1384 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1385 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1386 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1387 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1388 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1389 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1390 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1391 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1392 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1394 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1396 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1399 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1400 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1401 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1402 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1403 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1404 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1405 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1406 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1407 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1408 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1409 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1410 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1411 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1412 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1413 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1414 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1415 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1416 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1417 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1418 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1419 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1420 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1422 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1424 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1427 medium, high, emergency.
1428 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1429 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1430 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1431 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1432 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1435 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1436 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1437 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1439 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1440 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1441 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1442 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1443 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1444 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1445 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1448 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1450 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1453 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1454 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1455 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1457 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1458 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1459 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1460 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1461 debian/rules to do this
1462 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1463 patches are incorporated upstream
1464 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1465 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1466 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1467 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1468 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1469 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1471 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1472 system closes: Bug#91249
1473 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1474 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1475 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1476 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1477 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1478 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1479 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1480 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1481 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1482 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1483 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1484 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1485 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1487 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1489 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1492 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1493 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1494 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1496 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1497 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1498 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1500 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1503 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1505 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1508 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1509 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1510 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1511 package for the time being
1512 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1513 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1514 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1515 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1516 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1517 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1518 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1519 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1520 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1521 Build-Depends arch syntax
1522 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1524 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1525 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1527 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1528 from policy maintenance duties.
1529 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1530 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1532 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1534 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1538 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1540 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1543 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1544 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1545 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1546 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1547 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1548 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1549 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1550 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1551 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1552 minor version number for this
1553 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1554 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1555 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1556 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1557 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1558 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1559 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1560 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1561 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1563 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1565 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1568 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1569 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1570 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1571 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1573 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1575 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1576 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1577 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1578 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1579 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1580 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1581 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1582 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1583 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1584 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1585 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1586 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1587 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1588 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1589 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1590 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1593 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1595 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1598 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1600 * Document the Enhances relationship
1601 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1602 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1603 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1604 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1605 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1606 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1608 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1610 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1611 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1612 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1613 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1615 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1616 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1617 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1618 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1619 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1621 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1623 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1626 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1627 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1629 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1630 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1631 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1632 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1633 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1634 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1635 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1636 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1637 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1639 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1641 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1643 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1646 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1647 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1648 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1649 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1650 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1651 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1652 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1653 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1654 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1655 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1656 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1657 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1658 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1659 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1660 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1661 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1662 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1663 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1664 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1665 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1666 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1668 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1669 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1671 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1673 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1676 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1677 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1678 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1679 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1680 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1681 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1682 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1683 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1684 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1685 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1686 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1687 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1688 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1689 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1690 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1691 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1692 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1693 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1694 list closes: Bug#53756
1695 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1696 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1697 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1698 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1699 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1700 policy closes: Bug#53760
1701 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1702 policy closes: Bug#53761
1703 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1704 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1705 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1706 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1707 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1708 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1709 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1710 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1711 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1712 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1713 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1715 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1716 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1717 to install with older fileutils.
1718 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1719 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1720 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1721 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1723 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1724 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1726 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1728 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1731 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1733 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1735 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1738 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1740 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1743 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1746 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1748 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1750 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1752 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1755 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1757 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1759 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1762 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1763 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1764 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1765 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1766 directoried (closes: #41547)
1767 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1768 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1769 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1770 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1771 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1772 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1773 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1774 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1775 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1776 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1777 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1779 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1780 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1781 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1782 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1783 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1784 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1785 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1787 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1788 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1789 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1790 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1792 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1794 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1796 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1797 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1799 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1801 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1804 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1806 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1808 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1811 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1813 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1814 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1815 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1816 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1817 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1818 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1819 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1820 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1821 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1822 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1823 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1824 this closes: Bug#38612
1825 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1826 before. closes: Bug#40864
1828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1830 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1833 officially uploaded.
1834 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1836 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1837 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1838 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1840 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1841 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1842 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1843 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1844 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1845 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1847 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1848 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1849 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1851 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1853 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1854 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1855 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1856 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1857 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1859 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1861 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1864 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1865 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1866 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1867 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1868 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1869 there). closes: Bug#34233
1870 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1871 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1872 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1873 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1874 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1876 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1878 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1881 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1882 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1883 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1886 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1887 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1888 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1889 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1890 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1893 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1894 number. closes: BUG#25911
1896 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1897 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1898 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1899 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1900 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1901 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1903 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1904 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1905 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1908 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1909 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1910 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1912 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1913 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1914 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1915 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1917 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1918 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1919 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1921 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1923 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1924 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1925 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1926 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1927 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1928 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1929 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1930 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1933 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1935 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1936 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1939 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1941 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1945 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1947 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1950 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1951 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1952 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1953 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1954 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1955 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1956 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1958 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1959 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1961 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1963 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1965 * non-maintainer release
1966 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1967 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1969 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1970 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1971 * no content changes
1972 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1974 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1976 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1980 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1982 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1986 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1987 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1988 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1990 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1991 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1993 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1994 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1995 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1996 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1998 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1999 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2000 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2001 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2002 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2003 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2004 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2006 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2007 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2008 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2011 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2012 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2013 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2015 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2016 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2017 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2019 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2020 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2022 * New version numbering scheme:
2024 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2025 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2026 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2029 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2030 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2031 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2032 differ between the manuals.
2034 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2035 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2036 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2037 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2039 * Packaging changes:
2041 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2042 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2044 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2046 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2048 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2052 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2053 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2054 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2056 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2057 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2060 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2061 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2062 file extension as the referenced file
2064 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2065 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2067 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2068 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2069 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2070 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2073 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2074 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2075 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2077 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2078 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2079 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2080 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2083 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2084 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2087 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2088 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2089 reasonable default configuration
2091 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2092 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2093 by all news servers and clients
2095 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2096 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2097 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2098 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2099 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2101 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2102 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2105 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2107 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2108 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2110 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2113 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2114 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2116 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2117 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2119 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2121 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2123 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2126 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2127 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2128 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2130 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2132 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2133 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2134 * Don't use debstd anymore
2136 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2138 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2141 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2142 contrib/non-free policy
2143 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2144 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2145 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2146 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2147 - new section about `Daemons'
2148 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2149 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2150 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2151 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2152 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2153 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2154 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2155 * SGML source code included in package
2156 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2158 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2160 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2163 - completely reworked structure
2164 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2165 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2166 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2167 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2168 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2169 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2170 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2171 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2172 - mention "orphaned packages"
2173 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2174 distributions' policy
2175 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2176 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2177 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2178 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2179 - added section about arch spec strings
2180 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2181 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2182 - added section about "menus"
2183 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2184 the new documentation policy soon
2185 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2186 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2188 - added section about editors and pagers
2189 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2190 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2191 - added section about device files
2192 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2193 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2194 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2196 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2197 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2198 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2199 - Added new section about obsolete names
2200 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2201 * Fixed package's description
2203 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2205 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2209 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2211 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2214 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2215 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2216 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2218 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2220 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2223 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2224 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2226 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2227 and upload it "byhand" too.
2229 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2231 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2235 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2236 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2237 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2238 functionality must not have the same name.
2239 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2240 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2241 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2242 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2243 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2244 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2245 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2247 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2248 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2249 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2250 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2251 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2252 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2253 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2254 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2257 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2259 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2261 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2263 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2264 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2265 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2266 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2267 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2270 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2272 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2274 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2276 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2277 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2278 description of deb file format.
2279 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2280 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2282 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2284 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2285 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2287 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2289 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2291 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2292 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2293 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2294 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2295 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2296 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2297 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2298 packages in section on Procedure
2299 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2300 a package maintainer
2301 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2302 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2303 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2305 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2306 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2307 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2308 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2309 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2310 on various shlib files
2311 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2312 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2313 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2315 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2317 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2319 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2320 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2321 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2323 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2324 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2325 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2326 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2327 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2329 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2331 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2333 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2335 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2337 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2338 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2339 compatibility go in contrib.
2341 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2342 instructions in policy manual.
2343 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2346 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2348 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2350 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2351 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2352 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2353 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2355 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2356 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2359 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2361 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2363 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2364 * More detail about changelog format names.
2366 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2367 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2371 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2373 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2375 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2377 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2379 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2381 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2383 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2385 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2386 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2387 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2389 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2391 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2393 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2395 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2397 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2401 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100