1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
11 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
12 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
13 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
16 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
17 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
18 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
24 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 20:31:54 +0200
26 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
32 Closes: #459868, #581011
33 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
38 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
39 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
41 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
44 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
46 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
49 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
54 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
57 Closes: #501930, #593909
58 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
63 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
64 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
65 machine. (Closes: #591857)
66 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
67 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
68 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
69 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
70 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
71 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
72 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
73 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
74 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
75 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
77 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
78 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
79 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
80 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
81 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
82 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
83 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
84 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
85 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
86 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
87 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
88 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
89 than the version in oldstable.
90 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
91 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
92 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
93 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
94 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
95 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
96 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
97 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
98 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
99 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
100 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
101 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
102 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
103 package. (Closes: #609160)
105 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
107 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
121 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
145 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
148 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
150 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
151 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
153 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
156 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
167 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
172 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
173 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
177 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
182 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
197 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
199 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
200 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
201 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
202 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
203 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
204 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
205 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
206 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
207 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
209 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
210 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
211 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
212 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
213 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
214 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
216 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
218 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
224 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
227 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
228 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
229 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
230 and distribution license' (three times).
231 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
232 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
237 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
239 Proposed by Santiago Vila
240 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
253 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
257 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
259 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
264 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
265 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
268 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
270 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
271 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
274 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
277 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
280 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
282 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
283 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
284 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
287 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
288 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
298 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
303 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
309 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
310 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
311 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
314 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
315 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
320 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
321 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
325 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
326 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
327 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
328 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
329 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
330 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
331 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
332 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
333 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
334 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
335 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
336 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
337 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
338 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
339 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
340 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
341 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
342 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
343 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
344 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
345 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
346 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
347 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
348 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
349 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
350 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
351 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
352 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
353 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
354 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
355 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
356 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
358 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
360 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
362 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
366 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
368 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
369 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
373 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
376 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
377 Wording: Steve Langasek.
378 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
379 Seconded: Julien Cristau
380 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
383 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
384 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
385 Seconded: Russ Allbery
386 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
389 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
390 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
391 Seconded: Russ Allbery
393 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
394 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
395 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
396 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
397 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
398 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
399 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
400 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
403 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
404 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
405 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
406 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
407 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
408 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
409 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
411 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
412 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
413 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
414 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
415 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
416 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
417 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
420 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
421 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
422 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
423 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
424 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
426 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
429 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
433 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
434 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
437 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
439 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
446 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
447 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
451 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
452 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
456 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
457 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
460 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
461 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
474 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
475 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
479 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
489 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
490 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
494 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
495 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
496 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
497 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
498 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
499 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
500 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
501 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
502 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
503 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
504 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
505 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
506 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
507 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
508 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
510 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
511 Source field descriptions.
512 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
513 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
514 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
515 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
516 description says otherwise.
518 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
520 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
524 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
527 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
528 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
531 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
535 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
540 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
541 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
545 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
546 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
547 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
548 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
552 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
553 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
554 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
555 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
556 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
558 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
559 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
563 * Add myself to Uploaders.
566 * Add myself to Uploaders.
567 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
569 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
570 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
571 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
573 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
575 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
578 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
583 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
585 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
587 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
588 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
592 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
595 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
597 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
607 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
610 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
612 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
615 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
618 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
619 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
622 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
623 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
627 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
631 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
633 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
634 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
635 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
636 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
637 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
638 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
639 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
640 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
641 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
642 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
643 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
644 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
645 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
646 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
647 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
648 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
649 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
650 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
651 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
652 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
653 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
654 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
655 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
656 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
657 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
658 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
659 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
660 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
661 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
662 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
664 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
665 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
666 links was completed long ago.
667 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
669 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
671 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
674 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
676 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
678 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
681 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
682 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
683 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
684 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
685 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
686 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
687 Millan (Closes: #209008).
688 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
689 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
691 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
693 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
695 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
696 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
697 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
698 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
699 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
700 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
701 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
703 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
704 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
705 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
706 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
708 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
709 Küster (Closes: #403391).
710 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
711 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
712 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
713 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
714 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
719 Closes: #186700, #458910
720 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
721 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
725 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
726 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
727 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
728 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
729 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
730 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
731 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
733 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
734 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
736 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
737 * Add an md5sums control file.
738 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
739 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
740 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
741 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
742 currently part of policy.
743 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
744 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
745 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
748 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
750 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
753 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
754 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
755 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
756 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
757 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
758 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
759 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
760 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
761 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
763 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
764 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
765 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
766 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
767 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
769 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
771 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
772 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
773 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
775 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
776 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
777 list?" (Closes: #412634).
778 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
779 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
780 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
781 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
782 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
783 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
784 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
785 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
786 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
787 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
788 debconf specification.
789 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
790 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
792 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
794 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
797 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
798 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
799 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
800 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
805 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
806 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
807 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
808 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
810 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
811 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
812 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
813 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
814 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
815 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
816 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
817 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
818 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
819 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
820 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
821 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
822 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
823 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
824 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
825 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
827 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
829 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
830 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
831 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
832 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
834 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
835 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
836 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
838 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
840 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
843 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
844 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
845 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
846 Polo (Closes: #372497).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
848 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
851 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
852 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
853 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
854 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
855 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
856 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
857 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
858 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
859 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
861 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
862 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
863 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
864 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
865 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
866 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
868 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
870 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
873 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
874 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
875 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
878 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
880 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
882 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
885 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
886 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
887 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
888 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
889 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
890 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
891 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
892 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
893 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
895 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
896 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
898 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
899 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
900 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
901 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
902 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
904 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
905 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
908 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
910 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
913 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
915 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
916 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
917 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
918 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
919 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
920 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
921 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
922 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
923 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
924 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
925 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
926 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
927 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
928 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
929 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
930 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
931 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
933 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
934 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
935 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
936 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
937 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
938 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
939 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
941 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
942 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
943 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
944 Hess (Closes: #362247).
945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
946 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
947 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
948 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
949 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
950 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
951 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
952 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
953 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
954 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
955 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
956 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
959 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
961 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
962 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
964 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
965 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
966 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
967 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
968 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
969 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
970 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
971 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
973 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
975 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
979 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
980 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
981 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
982 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
983 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
984 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
985 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
986 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
987 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
988 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
989 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
993 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
995 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
996 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
998 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1000 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1002 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1004 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1006 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1007 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1008 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1010 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1013 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1015 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1018 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1019 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1020 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1022 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1023 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1025 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1027 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1029 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1033 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1034 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1035 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1036 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1038 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1039 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1040 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1041 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1043 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1044 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1045 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1048 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1049 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1051 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1052 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1053 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1055 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1056 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1057 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1058 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1060 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1061 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1062 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1063 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1065 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1066 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1067 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1070 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1071 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1072 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1074 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1075 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1076 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1078 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1079 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1080 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1081 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1082 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1083 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1084 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1085 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1087 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1089 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1093 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1094 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1095 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1096 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1097 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1098 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1099 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1100 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1102 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1103 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1104 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1105 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1106 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1107 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1108 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1109 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1110 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1111 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1112 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1113 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1115 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1116 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1117 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1118 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1121 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1122 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1125 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1126 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1127 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1129 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1130 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1131 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1132 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1133 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1134 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1136 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1137 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1139 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1140 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1141 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1142 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1143 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1144 Closes: #185943, #237049
1146 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1148 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1154 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1155 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1156 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1157 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1158 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1159 running. closes: Bug#187250
1160 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1161 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1162 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1163 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1164 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1165 user closes: Bug#176506
1167 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1169 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1173 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1174 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1175 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1176 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1177 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1178 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1179 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1180 deb-building toolchain.
1181 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1182 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1183 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1184 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1185 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1186 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1187 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1188 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1189 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1190 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1191 sections about changelog files.
1193 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1194 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1195 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1196 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1197 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1198 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1200 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1201 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1202 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1203 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1204 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1205 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1206 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1207 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1208 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1209 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1210 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1211 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1212 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1213 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1214 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1215 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1216 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1217 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1218 for the restructuring
1220 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1222 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1227 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1228 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1229 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1230 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1231 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1232 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1234 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1235 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1236 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1237 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1238 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1239 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1240 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1242 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1243 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1244 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1245 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1247 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1249 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1253 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1254 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1255 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1256 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1257 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1259 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1260 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1261 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1262 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1264 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1265 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1266 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1267 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1268 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1269 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1270 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1271 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1272 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1273 offtopic stuff, too.
1274 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1275 script should start it, closes: #60979
1276 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1277 "should", closes: #170019
1278 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1279 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1280 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1281 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1282 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1283 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1284 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1285 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1288 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1290 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1294 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1295 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1296 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1297 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1298 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1299 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1300 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1301 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1303 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1304 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1305 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1306 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1307 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1308 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1309 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1310 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1311 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1313 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1314 file, closes: Bug#65764
1316 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1318 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1321 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1322 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1323 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1324 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1325 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1326 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1327 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1328 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1329 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1330 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1331 details. closes: Bug#133030
1332 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1333 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1334 parts of Bug#161455.
1336 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1338 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1341 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1342 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1343 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1344 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1345 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1346 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1347 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1348 not. closes: Bug#139820
1349 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1350 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1351 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1352 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1353 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1354 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1355 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1356 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1357 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1358 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1360 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1362 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1363 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1364 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1365 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1366 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1367 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1368 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1369 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1370 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1371 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1372 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1373 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1374 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1375 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1376 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1377 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1378 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1379 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1380 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1381 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1383 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1384 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1385 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1386 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1387 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1388 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1389 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1391 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1392 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1393 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1394 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1395 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1396 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1397 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1398 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1399 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1401 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1403 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1406 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1407 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1408 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1409 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1410 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1411 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1412 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1413 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1414 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1415 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1416 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1417 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1418 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1419 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1420 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1421 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1422 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1423 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1424 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1425 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1426 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1427 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1429 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1431 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1434 medium, high, emergency.
1435 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1436 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1437 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1438 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1439 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1442 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1443 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1444 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1446 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1447 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1448 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1449 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1450 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1451 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1452 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1455 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1457 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1460 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1461 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1462 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1464 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1465 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1466 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1467 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1468 debian/rules to do this
1469 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1470 patches are incorporated upstream
1471 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1472 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1473 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1474 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1475 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1476 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1478 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1479 system closes: Bug#91249
1480 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1481 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1482 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1483 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1484 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1485 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1486 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1487 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1488 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1489 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1490 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1491 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1492 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1494 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1496 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1499 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1500 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1501 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1503 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1504 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1505 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1507 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1510 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1512 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1515 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1516 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1517 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1518 package for the time being
1519 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1520 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1521 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1522 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1523 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1524 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1525 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1526 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1527 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1528 Build-Depends arch syntax
1529 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1531 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1532 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1534 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1535 from policy maintenance duties.
1536 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1537 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1539 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1541 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1545 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1547 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1550 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1551 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1552 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1553 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1554 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1555 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1556 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1557 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1558 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1559 minor version number for this
1560 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1561 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1562 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1563 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1564 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1565 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1566 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1567 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1568 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1570 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1572 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1575 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1576 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1577 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1578 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1580 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1582 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1583 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1584 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1585 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1586 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1587 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1588 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1589 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1590 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1591 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1592 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1593 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1594 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1595 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1596 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1597 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1600 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1602 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1605 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1607 * Document the Enhances relationship
1608 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1609 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1610 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1611 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1612 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1613 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1615 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1617 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1618 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1619 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1620 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1622 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1623 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1624 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1625 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1626 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1628 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1630 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1633 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1634 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1636 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1637 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1638 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1639 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1640 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1641 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1642 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1643 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1644 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1646 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1648 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1650 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1653 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1654 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1655 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1656 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1657 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1658 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1659 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1660 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1661 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1662 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1663 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1664 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1665 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1666 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1667 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1668 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1669 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1670 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1671 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1672 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1673 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1675 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1676 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1680 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1683 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1684 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1685 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1686 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1687 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1688 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1689 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1690 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1691 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1692 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1693 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1694 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1695 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1696 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1697 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1698 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1699 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1700 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1701 list closes: Bug#53756
1702 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1703 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1704 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1705 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1706 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1707 policy closes: Bug#53760
1708 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1709 policy closes: Bug#53761
1710 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1711 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1712 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1713 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1714 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1715 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1716 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1717 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1718 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1719 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1720 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1722 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1723 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1724 to install with older fileutils.
1725 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1726 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1727 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1728 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1730 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1731 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1733 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1735 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1738 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1740 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1742 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1745 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1747 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1750 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1753 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1755 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1757 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1759 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1762 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1764 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1766 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1769 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1770 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1771 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1772 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1773 directoried (closes: #41547)
1774 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1775 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1776 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1777 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1778 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1779 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1780 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1781 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1782 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1783 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1784 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1786 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1787 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1788 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1789 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1790 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1791 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1792 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1794 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1795 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1796 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1797 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1799 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1801 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1803 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1804 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1806 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1808 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1811 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1813 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1815 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1818 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1820 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1821 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1822 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1823 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1824 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1825 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1826 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1827 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1828 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1829 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1830 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1831 this closes: Bug#38612
1832 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1833 before. closes: Bug#40864
1835 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1837 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1840 officially uploaded.
1841 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1843 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1844 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1845 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1847 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1848 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1849 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1850 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1851 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1852 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1854 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1855 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1856 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1858 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1860 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1861 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1862 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1863 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1864 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1866 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1868 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1871 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1872 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1873 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1874 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1875 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1876 there). closes: Bug#34233
1877 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1878 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1879 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1880 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1881 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1885 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1888 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1889 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1890 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1893 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1894 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1895 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1896 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1897 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1900 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1901 number. closes: BUG#25911
1903 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1904 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1905 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1906 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1907 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1908 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1910 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1911 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1912 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1915 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1916 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1917 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1919 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1920 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1921 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1922 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1924 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1925 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1926 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1928 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1930 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1931 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1932 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1933 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1934 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1935 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1936 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1937 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1940 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1942 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1943 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1946 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1948 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1952 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1954 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1957 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1958 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1959 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1960 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1961 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1962 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1963 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1965 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1966 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1968 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1970 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1972 * non-maintainer release
1973 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1974 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1976 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1977 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1978 * no content changes
1979 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1981 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1983 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1987 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1989 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1993 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1994 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1995 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1997 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1998 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2000 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2001 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2002 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2003 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2005 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2006 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2007 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2008 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2009 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2010 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2011 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2013 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2014 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2015 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2018 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2019 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2020 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2022 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2023 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2024 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2026 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2027 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2029 * New version numbering scheme:
2031 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2032 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2033 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2036 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2037 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2038 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2039 differ between the manuals.
2041 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2042 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2043 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2044 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2046 * Packaging changes:
2048 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2049 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2051 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2053 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2055 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2059 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2060 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2061 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2063 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2064 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2067 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2068 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2069 file extension as the referenced file
2071 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2072 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2074 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2075 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2076 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2077 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2080 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2081 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2082 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2084 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2085 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2086 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2087 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2090 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2091 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2094 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2095 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2096 reasonable default configuration
2098 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2099 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2100 by all news servers and clients
2102 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2103 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2104 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2105 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2106 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2108 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2109 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2112 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2114 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2115 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2117 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2120 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2121 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2123 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2124 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2126 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2128 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2130 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2133 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2134 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2135 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2137 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2139 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2140 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2141 * Don't use debstd anymore
2143 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2145 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2148 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2149 contrib/non-free policy
2150 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2151 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2152 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2153 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2154 - new section about `Daemons'
2155 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2156 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2157 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2158 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2159 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2160 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2161 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2162 * SGML source code included in package
2163 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2165 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2167 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2170 - completely reworked structure
2171 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2172 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2173 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2174 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2175 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2176 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2177 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2178 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2179 - mention "orphaned packages"
2180 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2181 distributions' policy
2182 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2183 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2184 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2185 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2186 - added section about arch spec strings
2187 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2188 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2189 - added section about "menus"
2190 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2191 the new documentation policy soon
2192 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2193 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2195 - added section about editors and pagers
2196 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2197 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2198 - added section about device files
2199 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2200 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2201 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2203 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2204 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2205 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2206 - Added new section about obsolete names
2207 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2208 * Fixed package's description
2210 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2212 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2216 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2218 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2221 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2222 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2223 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2225 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2227 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2230 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2231 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2233 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2234 and upload it "byhand" too.
2236 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2238 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2242 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2243 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2244 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2245 functionality must not have the same name.
2246 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2247 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2248 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2249 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2250 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2251 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2252 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2254 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2255 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2256 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2257 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2258 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2259 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2260 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2261 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2264 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2266 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2268 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2270 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2271 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2272 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2273 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2274 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2277 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2279 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2281 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2283 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2284 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2285 description of deb file format.
2286 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2287 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2289 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2291 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2292 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2294 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2296 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2298 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2299 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2300 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2301 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2302 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2303 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2304 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2305 packages in section on Procedure
2306 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2307 a package maintainer
2308 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2309 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2310 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2312 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2313 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2314 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2315 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2316 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2317 on various shlib files
2318 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2319 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2320 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2322 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2324 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2326 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2327 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2328 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2330 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2331 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2332 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2333 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2334 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2336 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2338 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2340 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2342 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2344 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2345 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2346 compatibility go in contrib.
2348 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2349 instructions in policy manual.
2350 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2353 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2355 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2357 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2358 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2359 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2360 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2362 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2363 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2366 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2368 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2370 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2371 * More detail about changelog format names.
2373 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2374 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2378 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2380 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2382 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2384 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2386 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2388 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2390 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2392 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2393 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2394 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2396 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2398 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2400 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2402 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2404 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2408 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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