1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
5 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
10 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
11 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
16 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
17 the debian/control file of a source package.
18 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
23 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:22:01 +0100
25 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
28 for the help. Closes: #769219
30 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
32 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
35 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
36 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
38 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
39 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
40 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
41 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
42 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
43 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
44 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
45 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
46 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
48 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
50 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
51 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
57 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
58 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
62 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
63 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
67 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
68 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
72 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
74 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
80 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
85 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
89 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
92 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
95 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
99 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
100 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
101 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
104 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
105 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
107 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
110 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
111 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
112 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
113 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
115 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
120 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
123 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
127 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
128 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
133 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
134 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
138 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
141 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
146 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
147 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
151 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
155 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
156 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
158 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
160 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
161 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
162 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
166 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
167 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
171 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
172 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
174 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
176 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
177 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
181 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
182 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
183 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
186 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
187 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
188 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
189 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
192 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
193 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
194 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
195 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
196 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
197 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
198 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
199 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
200 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
201 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
202 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
204 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
205 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
206 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
207 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
209 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
211 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
213 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
214 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
215 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
217 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
218 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
219 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
225 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
226 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
231 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
236 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
237 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
238 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
242 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
243 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
250 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
253 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
254 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
255 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
258 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
259 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
264 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
266 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
269 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
270 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
271 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
272 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
274 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
275 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
276 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
277 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
278 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
279 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
280 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
281 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
282 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
283 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
284 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
285 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
286 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
287 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
288 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
289 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
290 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
292 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
293 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
294 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
295 good to know which version one is looking at.
296 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
297 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
298 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
299 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
300 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
301 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
302 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
304 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
305 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
306 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
307 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
308 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
310 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
311 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
312 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
314 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
315 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
316 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
317 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
319 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
321 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
325 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
326 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
327 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
328 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
329 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
330 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
331 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
332 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
333 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
334 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
340 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
345 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
346 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
350 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
352 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
361 Closes: #620870, #532120
362 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
363 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
368 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
369 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
370 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
374 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
375 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
376 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
377 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
378 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
380 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
381 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
382 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
383 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
384 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
385 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
386 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
387 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
388 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
389 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
390 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
391 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
392 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
393 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
394 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
395 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
397 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
399 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
400 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
401 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
402 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
403 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
404 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
405 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
406 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
407 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
408 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
411 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
413 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
414 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
415 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
416 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
421 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
422 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
424 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
425 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
426 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
427 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
430 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
432 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
436 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
437 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
438 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
441 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
442 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
443 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
445 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
446 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
452 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
453 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
454 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
457 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
458 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
463 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
464 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
465 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
466 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
469 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
470 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
471 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
474 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
475 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
480 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
482 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
488 Closes: #459868, #581011
489 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
492 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
494 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
495 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
497 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
499 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
500 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
502 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
504 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
505 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
509 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
510 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
513 Closes: #501930, #593909
514 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
515 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
519 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
520 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
521 machine. (Closes: #591857)
522 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
523 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
524 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
525 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
526 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
527 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
528 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
529 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
530 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
531 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
533 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
534 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
535 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
536 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
537 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
538 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
539 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
540 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
541 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
542 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
543 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
544 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
545 than the version in oldstable.
546 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
547 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
548 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
549 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
550 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
551 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
552 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
553 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
554 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
555 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
556 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
557 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
558 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
559 package. (Closes: #609160)
561 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
563 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
572 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
576 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
586 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
591 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
592 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
597 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
601 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
604 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
609 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
611 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
617 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
623 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
624 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
628 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
629 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
633 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
638 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
643 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
644 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
648 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
653 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
655 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
656 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
657 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
658 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
659 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
660 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
661 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
662 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
663 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
665 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
666 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
667 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
668 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
669 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
670 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
672 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
674 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
680 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
683 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
684 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
685 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
686 and distribution license' (three times).
687 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
688 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
693 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
695 Proposed by Santiago Vila
696 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
703 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
709 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
710 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
713 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
715 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
716 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
724 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
726 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
727 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
730 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
732 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
733 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
736 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
738 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
739 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
740 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
743 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
744 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
749 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
750 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
754 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
759 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
760 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
765 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
766 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
767 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
770 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
771 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
776 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
777 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
781 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
782 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
783 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
784 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
785 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
786 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
787 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
788 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
789 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
790 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
791 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
792 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
793 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
794 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
795 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
796 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
797 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
798 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
799 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
800 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
801 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
802 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
803 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
804 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
805 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
806 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
807 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
808 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
809 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
810 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
811 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
812 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
814 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
816 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
818 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
822 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
824 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
825 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
829 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
832 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
833 Wording: Steve Langasek.
834 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
835 Seconded: Julien Cristau
836 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
839 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
840 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
841 Seconded: Russ Allbery
842 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
845 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
846 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
847 Seconded: Russ Allbery
849 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
850 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
851 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
852 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
853 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
854 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
855 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
856 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
857 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
859 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
860 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
861 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
862 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
863 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
864 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
865 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
867 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
868 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
869 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
870 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
871 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
872 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
873 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
876 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
877 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
878 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
879 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
880 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
882 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
885 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
886 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
889 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
890 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
893 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
895 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
898 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
900 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
902 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
903 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
904 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
905 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
907 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
908 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
912 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
913 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
916 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
917 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
919 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
920 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
921 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
925 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
926 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
930 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
931 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
932 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
935 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
936 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
937 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
938 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
940 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
941 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
945 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
946 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
947 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
950 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
951 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
952 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
953 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
954 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
955 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
956 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
957 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
958 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
959 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
960 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
961 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
962 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
963 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
964 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
966 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
967 Source field descriptions.
968 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
969 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
970 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
971 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
972 description says otherwise.
974 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
976 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
980 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
982 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
983 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
984 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
986 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
987 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
988 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
989 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
991 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
992 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
993 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
996 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
997 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
998 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1001 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1002 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1003 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1004 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1008 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1009 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1010 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1011 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1012 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1014 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1015 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1016 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1017 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1019 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1022 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1023 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1025 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1026 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1027 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1029 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1031 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1034 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1036 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1038 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1039 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1041 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1043 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1044 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1046 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1048 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1049 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1050 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1051 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1053 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1054 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1055 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1056 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1058 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1059 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1060 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1063 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1064 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1065 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1066 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1068 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1069 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1070 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1071 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1073 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1074 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1075 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1076 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1078 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1079 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1080 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1081 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1083 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1084 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1085 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1086 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1087 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1089 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1090 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1091 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1092 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1093 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1094 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1095 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1096 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1097 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1098 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1099 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1100 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1101 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1102 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1103 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1104 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1105 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1106 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1107 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1108 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1109 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1110 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1111 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1112 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1113 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1114 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1115 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1116 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1117 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1118 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1120 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1121 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1122 links was completed long ago.
1123 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1125 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1127 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1130 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1132 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1134 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1137 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1138 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1139 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1140 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1141 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1142 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1143 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1144 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1145 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1147 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1149 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1151 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1152 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1153 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1154 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1155 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1156 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1157 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1159 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1160 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1161 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1162 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1164 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1165 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1166 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1167 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1168 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1169 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1170 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1171 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1172 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1173 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1174 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1175 Closes: #186700, #458910
1176 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1177 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1180 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1181 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1182 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1183 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1184 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1185 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1186 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1187 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1189 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1190 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1192 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1193 * Add an md5sums control file.
1194 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1195 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1196 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1197 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1198 currently part of policy.
1199 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1200 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1201 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1204 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1206 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1209 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1210 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1211 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1212 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1213 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1214 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1215 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1216 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1217 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1219 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1220 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1221 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1222 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1223 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1225 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1227 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1228 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1229 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1231 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1232 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1233 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1234 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1235 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1236 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1237 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1238 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1239 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1240 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1241 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1242 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1243 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1244 debconf specification.
1245 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1246 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1248 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1250 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1253 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1255 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1256 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1261 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1262 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1263 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1264 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1266 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1267 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1268 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1269 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1270 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1271 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1272 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1273 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1274 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1275 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1276 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1277 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1278 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1280 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1286 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1287 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1288 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1290 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1291 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1292 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1294 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1296 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1299 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1300 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1302 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1304 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1307 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1308 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1309 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1311 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1312 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1313 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1315 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1317 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1318 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1319 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1320 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1321 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1322 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1324 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1326 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1329 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1330 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1331 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1334 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1336 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1338 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1341 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1342 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1343 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1344 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1345 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1346 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1347 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1348 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1349 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1351 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1352 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1354 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1355 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1356 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1357 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1358 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1359 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1360 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1361 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1364 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1366 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1369 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1371 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1372 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1373 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1374 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1375 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1376 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1377 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1378 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1379 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1380 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1381 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1382 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1383 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1384 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1385 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1386 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1387 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1389 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1390 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1391 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1392 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1393 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1394 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1395 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1397 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1398 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1399 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1400 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1402 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1403 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1404 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1405 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1406 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1407 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1408 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1409 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1410 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1411 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1412 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1415 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1418 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1420 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1421 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1422 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1423 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1424 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1425 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1426 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1427 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1429 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1431 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1435 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1436 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1437 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1439 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1440 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1441 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1443 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1444 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1445 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1446 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1449 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1450 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1451 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1452 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1454 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1456 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1458 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1459 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1460 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1462 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1463 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1464 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1466 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1469 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1471 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1474 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1475 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1476 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1478 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1479 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1481 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1483 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1485 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1489 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1490 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1491 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1492 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1494 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1495 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1496 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1497 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1499 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1500 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1501 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1503 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1504 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1505 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1506 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1507 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1508 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1509 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1511 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1512 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1513 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1514 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1516 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1517 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1518 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1519 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1520 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1521 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1522 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1523 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1525 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1526 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1527 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1528 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1529 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1530 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1531 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1532 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1533 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1534 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1535 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1536 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1537 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1538 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1539 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1540 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1541 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1543 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1545 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1549 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1550 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1551 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1552 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1553 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1554 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1555 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1556 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1558 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1559 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1560 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1561 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1562 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1563 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1564 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1565 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1566 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1567 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1568 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1569 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1570 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1571 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1572 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1573 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1574 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1576 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1577 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1578 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1581 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1582 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1583 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1585 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1586 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1587 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1588 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1589 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1590 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1592 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1593 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1595 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1596 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1597 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1598 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1599 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1600 Closes: #185943, #237049
1602 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1604 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1610 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1611 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1612 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1613 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1614 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1615 running. closes: Bug#187250
1616 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1617 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1618 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1619 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1620 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1621 user closes: Bug#176506
1623 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1625 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1629 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1630 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1631 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1632 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1633 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1634 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1635 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1636 deb-building toolchain.
1637 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1638 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1639 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1640 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1641 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1642 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1643 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1644 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1645 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1646 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1647 sections about changelog files.
1649 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1650 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1651 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1652 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1653 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1654 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1656 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1657 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1658 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1659 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1660 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1661 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1662 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1663 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1664 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1665 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1666 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1667 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1668 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1669 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1670 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1671 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1672 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1673 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1674 for the restructuring
1676 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1678 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1683 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1684 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1685 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1686 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1687 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1688 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1690 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1691 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1692 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1693 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1694 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1695 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1696 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1698 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1699 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1700 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1701 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1703 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1705 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1709 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1710 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1711 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1712 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1713 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1715 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1716 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1717 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1718 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1720 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1721 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1722 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1723 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1724 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1725 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1726 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1727 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1728 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1729 offtopic stuff, too.
1730 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1731 script should start it, closes: #60979
1732 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1733 "should", closes: #170019
1734 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1735 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1736 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1737 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1738 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1739 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1740 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1741 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1744 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1746 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1750 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1751 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1752 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1753 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1754 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1755 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1756 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1757 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1759 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1760 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1761 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1762 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1763 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1764 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1765 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1766 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1767 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1769 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1770 file, closes: Bug#65764
1772 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1774 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1777 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1778 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1779 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1780 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1781 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1782 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1783 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1784 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1785 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1786 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1787 details. closes: Bug#133030
1788 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1789 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1790 parts of Bug#161455.
1792 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1794 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1797 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1798 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1799 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1800 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1801 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1802 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1803 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1804 not. closes: Bug#139820
1805 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1806 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1807 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1808 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1809 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1810 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1811 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1812 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1813 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1814 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1816 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1818 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1819 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1820 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1821 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1822 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1823 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1824 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1825 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1826 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1827 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1828 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1829 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1830 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1831 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1832 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1833 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1834 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1835 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1836 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1837 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1839 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1840 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1841 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1842 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1843 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1844 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1845 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1847 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1848 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1849 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1850 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1851 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1852 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1853 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1854 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1855 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1857 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1859 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1862 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1863 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1864 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1865 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1866 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1867 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1868 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1869 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1870 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1871 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1872 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1873 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1874 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1875 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1876 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1877 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1878 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1879 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1880 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1881 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1882 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1883 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1885 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1887 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1890 medium, high, emergency.
1891 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1892 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1893 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1894 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1895 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1898 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1899 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1900 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1902 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1903 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1904 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1905 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1906 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1907 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1908 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1911 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1913 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1916 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1917 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1918 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1920 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1921 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1922 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1923 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1924 debian/rules to do this
1925 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1926 patches are incorporated upstream
1927 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1928 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1929 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1930 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1931 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1932 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1934 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1935 system closes: Bug#91249
1936 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1937 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1938 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1939 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1940 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1941 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1942 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1943 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1944 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1945 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1946 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1947 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1948 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1950 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1952 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1955 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1956 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1957 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1959 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1960 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1961 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1963 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1966 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1968 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1971 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1972 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1973 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1974 package for the time being
1975 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1976 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1977 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1978 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1979 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1980 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1981 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1982 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1983 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1984 Build-Depends arch syntax
1985 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1987 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1988 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1990 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1991 from policy maintenance duties.
1992 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1993 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1995 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1997 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2001 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2003 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2006 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2007 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2008 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2009 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2010 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2011 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2012 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2013 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2014 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2015 minor version number for this
2016 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2017 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2018 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2019 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2020 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2021 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2022 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2023 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2024 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2026 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2028 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2031 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2032 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2033 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2034 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2036 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2038 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2039 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2040 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2041 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2042 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2043 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2044 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2045 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2046 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2047 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2048 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2049 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2050 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2051 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2052 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2053 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2056 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2058 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2061 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2063 * Document the Enhances relationship
2064 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2065 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2066 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2067 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2068 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2069 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2071 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2073 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2074 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2075 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2076 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2078 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2079 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2080 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2081 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2082 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2084 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2086 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2089 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2090 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2092 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2093 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2094 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2095 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2096 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2097 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2098 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2099 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2100 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2102 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2104 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2106 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2109 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2110 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2111 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2112 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2113 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2114 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2115 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2116 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2117 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2118 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2119 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2120 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2121 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2122 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2123 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2124 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2125 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2126 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2127 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2128 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2129 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2131 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2132 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2134 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2136 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2139 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2140 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2141 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2142 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2143 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2144 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2145 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2146 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2147 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2148 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2149 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2150 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2151 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2152 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2153 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2154 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2155 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2156 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2157 list closes: Bug#53756
2158 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2159 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2160 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2161 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2162 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2163 policy closes: Bug#53760
2164 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2165 policy closes: Bug#53761
2166 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2167 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2168 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2169 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2170 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2171 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2172 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2173 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2174 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2175 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2176 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2178 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2179 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2180 to install with older fileutils.
2181 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2182 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2183 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2184 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2186 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2187 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2189 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2191 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2194 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2196 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2198 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2201 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2203 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2206 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2209 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2211 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2213 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2215 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2218 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2220 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2222 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2225 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2226 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2227 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2228 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2229 directoried (closes: #41547)
2230 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2231 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2232 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2233 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2234 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2235 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2236 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2237 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2238 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2239 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2240 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2242 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2243 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2244 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2245 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2246 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2247 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2248 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2250 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2251 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2252 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2253 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2255 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2257 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2259 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2260 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2262 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2264 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2267 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2269 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2271 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2274 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2276 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2277 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2278 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2279 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2280 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2281 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2282 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2283 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2284 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2285 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2286 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2287 this closes: Bug#38612
2288 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2289 before. closes: Bug#40864
2291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2293 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2296 officially uploaded.
2297 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2299 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2300 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2301 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2303 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2304 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2305 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2306 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2307 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2308 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2310 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2311 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2312 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2314 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2316 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2317 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2318 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2319 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2320 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2322 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2324 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2327 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2328 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2329 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2330 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2331 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2332 there). closes: Bug#34233
2333 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2334 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2335 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2336 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2337 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2339 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2341 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2344 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2345 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2346 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2349 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2350 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2351 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2352 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2353 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2356 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2357 number. closes: BUG#25911
2359 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2360 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2361 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2362 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2363 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2364 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2366 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2367 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2368 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2371 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2372 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2373 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2375 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2376 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2377 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2378 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2380 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2381 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2382 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2384 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2386 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2387 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2388 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2389 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2390 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2391 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2392 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2393 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2396 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2398 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2399 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2402 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2404 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2408 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2410 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2413 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2414 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2415 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2416 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2417 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2418 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2419 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2421 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2422 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2424 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2426 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2428 * non-maintainer release
2429 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2430 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2432 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2433 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2434 * no content changes
2435 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2437 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2439 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2443 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2445 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2449 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2450 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2451 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2453 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2454 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2456 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2457 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2458 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2459 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2461 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2462 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2463 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2464 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2465 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2466 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2467 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2469 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2470 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2471 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2474 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2475 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2476 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2478 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2479 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2480 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2482 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2483 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2485 * New version numbering scheme:
2487 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2488 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2489 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2492 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2493 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2494 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2495 differ between the manuals.
2497 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2498 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2499 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2500 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2502 * Packaging changes:
2504 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2505 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2507 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2509 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2511 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2515 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2516 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2517 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2519 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2520 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2523 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2524 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2525 file extension as the referenced file
2527 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2528 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2530 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2531 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2532 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2533 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2536 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2537 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2538 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2540 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2541 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2542 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2543 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2546 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2547 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2550 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2551 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2552 reasonable default configuration
2554 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2555 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2556 by all news servers and clients
2558 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2559 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2560 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2561 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2562 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2564 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2565 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2568 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2570 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2571 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2573 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2576 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2577 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2579 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2580 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2582 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2584 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2586 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2589 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2590 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2591 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2593 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2595 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2596 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2597 * Don't use debstd anymore
2599 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2601 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2604 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2605 contrib/non-free policy
2606 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2607 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2608 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2609 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2610 - new section about `Daemons'
2611 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2612 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2613 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2614 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2615 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2616 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2617 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2618 * SGML source code included in package
2619 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2621 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2623 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2626 - completely reworked structure
2627 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2628 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2629 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2630 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2631 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2632 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2633 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2634 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2635 - mention "orphaned packages"
2636 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2637 distributions' policy
2638 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2639 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2640 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2641 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2642 - added section about arch spec strings
2643 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2644 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2645 - added section about "menus"
2646 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2647 the new documentation policy soon
2648 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2649 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2651 - added section about editors and pagers
2652 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2653 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2654 - added section about device files
2655 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2656 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2657 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2659 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2660 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2661 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2662 - Added new section about obsolete names
2663 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2664 * Fixed package's description
2666 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2668 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2672 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2674 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2677 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2678 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2679 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2681 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2683 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2686 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2687 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2689 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2690 and upload it "byhand" too.
2692 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2694 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2698 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2699 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2700 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2701 functionality must not have the same name.
2702 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2703 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2704 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2705 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2706 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2707 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2708 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2710 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2711 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2712 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2713 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2714 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2715 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2716 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2717 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2720 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2722 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2724 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2726 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2727 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2728 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2729 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2730 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2733 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2735 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2737 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2739 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2740 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2741 description of deb file format.
2742 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2743 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2745 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2747 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2748 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2750 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2752 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2754 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2755 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2756 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2757 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2758 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2759 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2760 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2761 packages in section on Procedure
2762 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2763 a package maintainer
2764 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2765 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2766 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2768 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2769 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2770 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2771 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2772 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2773 on various shlib files
2774 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2775 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2776 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2778 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2780 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2782 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2783 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2784 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2786 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2787 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2788 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2789 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2790 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2792 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2794 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2796 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2798 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2800 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2801 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2802 compatibility go in contrib.
2804 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2805 instructions in policy manual.
2806 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2809 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2811 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2813 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2814 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2815 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2816 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2818 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2819 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2824 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2826 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2827 * More detail about changelog format names.
2829 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2830 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2834 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2836 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2838 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2840 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2842 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2844 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2846 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2848 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2849 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2850 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2852 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2854 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2856 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2858 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2860 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2864 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100