1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
4 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
5 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
7 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
9 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
13 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
14 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
15 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
16 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
17 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
18 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
19 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
20 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
21 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
22 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
27 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
28 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
33 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
34 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
38 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
40 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
41 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
45 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
46 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
49 Closes: #620870, #532120
50 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
51 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
56 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
57 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
62 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
63 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
64 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
65 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
66 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
68 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
69 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
70 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
71 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
72 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
73 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
74 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
75 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
76 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
77 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
78 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
79 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
80 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
81 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
82 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
83 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
85 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
87 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
88 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
89 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
90 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
91 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
92 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
93 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
94 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
95 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
96 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
99 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
101 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
102 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
103 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
104 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
109 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
110 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
112 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
113 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
114 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
115 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
118 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
120 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
124 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
125 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
126 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
129 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
130 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
131 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
133 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
134 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
140 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
141 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
145 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
146 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
151 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
152 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
153 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
154 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
157 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
158 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
159 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
162 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
163 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
168 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
170 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
176 Closes: #459868, #581011
177 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
180 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
183 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
185 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
188 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
190 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
198 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
201 Closes: #501930, #593909
202 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
207 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
208 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
209 machine. (Closes: #591857)
210 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
211 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
212 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
213 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
214 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
215 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
216 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
217 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
218 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
219 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
221 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
222 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
223 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
224 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
225 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
226 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
227 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
228 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
229 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
230 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
231 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
232 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
233 than the version in oldstable.
234 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
235 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
236 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
237 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
238 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
239 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
240 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
241 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
242 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
243 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
244 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
245 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
246 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
247 package. (Closes: #609160)
249 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
251 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
259 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
264 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
265 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
269 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
270 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
274 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
275 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
289 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
290 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
292 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
294 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
297 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
299 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
305 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
311 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
316 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
317 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
326 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
336 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
341 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
343 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
344 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
345 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
346 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
347 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
348 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
349 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
350 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
351 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
353 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
354 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
355 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
356 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
357 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
358 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
360 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
362 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
368 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
371 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
372 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
373 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
374 and distribution license' (three times).
375 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
376 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
381 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
383 Proposed by Santiago Vila
384 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
391 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
392 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
396 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
397 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
401 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
408 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
412 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
415 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
418 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
424 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
428 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
431 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
432 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
437 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
442 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
443 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
447 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
453 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
454 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
455 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
458 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
459 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
464 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
465 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
469 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
470 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
471 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
472 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
473 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
474 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
475 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
476 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
477 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
478 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
479 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
480 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
481 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
482 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
483 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
484 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
485 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
486 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
487 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
488 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
489 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
490 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
491 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
492 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
493 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
494 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
495 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
496 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
497 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
498 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
499 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
500 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
502 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
504 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
506 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
510 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
512 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
513 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
517 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
520 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
521 Wording: Steve Langasek.
522 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
523 Seconded: Julien Cristau
524 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
527 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
528 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
529 Seconded: Russ Allbery
530 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
533 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
534 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery
537 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
538 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
539 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
540 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
541 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
542 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
543 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
544 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
547 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
548 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
549 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
550 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
551 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
552 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
553 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
555 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
556 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
557 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
558 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
559 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
560 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
561 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
564 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
565 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
566 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
567 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
568 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
570 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
573 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
577 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
578 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
581 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
583 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
586 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
591 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
595 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
596 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
600 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
601 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
604 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
605 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
607 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
613 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
614 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
618 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
619 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
623 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
624 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
628 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
629 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
633 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
634 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
638 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
639 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
640 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
641 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
642 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
643 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
644 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
645 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
646 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
647 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
648 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
649 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
650 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
651 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
652 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
654 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
655 Source field descriptions.
656 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
657 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
658 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
659 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
660 description says otherwise.
662 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
664 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
668 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
671 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
672 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
674 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
675 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
679 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
684 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
685 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
689 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
690 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
691 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
692 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
696 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
697 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
698 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
699 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
700 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
702 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
703 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
707 * Add myself to Uploaders.
710 * Add myself to Uploaders.
711 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
713 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
714 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
715 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
717 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
719 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
722 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
726 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
727 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
729 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
731 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
732 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
736 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
737 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
739 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
741 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
742 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
746 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
747 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
751 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
752 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
754 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
756 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
757 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
759 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
761 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
762 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
763 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
766 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
767 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
771 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
772 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
775 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
777 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
778 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
779 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
780 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
781 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
782 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
783 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
784 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
785 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
786 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
787 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
788 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
789 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
790 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
791 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
792 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
793 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
794 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
795 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
796 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
797 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
798 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
799 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
800 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
801 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
802 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
803 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
804 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
805 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
806 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
808 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
809 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
810 links was completed long ago.
811 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
813 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
815 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
818 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
820 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
822 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
825 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
826 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
827 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
828 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
829 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
830 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
831 Millan (Closes: #209008).
832 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
833 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
835 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
837 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
839 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
840 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
841 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
842 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
843 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
844 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
845 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
847 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
848 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
849 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
850 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
852 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
853 Küster (Closes: #403391).
854 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
855 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
856 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
857 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
858 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
859 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
863 Closes: #186700, #458910
864 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
865 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
869 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
870 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
871 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
872 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
873 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
874 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
875 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
877 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
878 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
880 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
881 * Add an md5sums control file.
882 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
883 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
884 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
885 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
886 currently part of policy.
887 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
888 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
889 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
892 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
894 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
897 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
898 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
899 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
900 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
901 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
902 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
903 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
904 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
905 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
907 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
908 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
909 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
910 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
911 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
913 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
915 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
916 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
917 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
919 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
920 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
921 list?" (Closes: #412634).
922 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
923 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
924 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
925 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
926 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
927 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
928 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
929 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
930 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
931 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
932 debconf specification.
933 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
934 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
936 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
938 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
941 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
943 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
944 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
949 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
950 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
951 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
952 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
954 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
955 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
956 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
957 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
958 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
959 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
960 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
961 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
962 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
963 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
964 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
965 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
966 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
968 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
974 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
975 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
976 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
978 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
979 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
980 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
982 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
984 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
987 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
988 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
989 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
990 Polo (Closes: #372497).
991 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
992 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
995 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
996 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
997 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
999 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1001 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1003 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1005 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1006 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1008 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1009 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1010 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1014 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1017 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1018 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1019 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1022 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1024 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1026 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1029 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1030 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1031 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1032 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1033 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1034 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1035 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1036 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1037 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1039 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1040 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1041 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1042 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1043 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1044 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1046 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1048 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1049 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1052 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1054 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1057 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1058 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1059 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1060 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1061 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1062 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1063 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1064 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1065 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1066 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1067 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1068 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1069 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1070 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1071 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1072 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1073 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1074 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1075 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1077 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1078 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1079 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1080 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1081 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1082 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1083 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1085 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1086 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1087 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1088 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1090 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1091 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1092 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1093 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1094 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1095 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1096 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1097 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1098 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1099 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1100 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1103 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1106 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1108 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1109 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1110 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1111 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1112 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1113 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1114 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1115 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1117 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1119 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1123 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1125 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1127 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1128 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1129 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1131 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1132 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1133 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1137 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1139 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1140 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1142 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1143 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1144 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1146 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1148 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1150 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1151 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1152 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1154 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1157 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1159 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1162 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1163 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1164 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1166 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1167 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1169 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1173 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1177 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1178 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1179 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1180 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1182 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1183 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1184 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1185 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1188 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1189 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1192 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1193 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1195 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1196 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1197 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1199 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1200 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1201 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1202 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1205 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1206 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1207 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1209 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1210 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1211 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1214 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1215 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1216 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1218 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1219 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1220 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1221 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1222 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1223 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1224 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1225 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1226 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1227 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1228 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1229 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1233 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1237 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1238 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1239 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1240 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1241 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1242 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1243 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1244 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1246 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1247 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1248 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1249 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1250 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1251 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1252 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1253 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1254 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1255 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1256 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1257 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1259 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1260 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1261 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1265 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1266 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1269 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1270 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1271 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1273 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1274 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1275 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1276 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1277 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1278 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1280 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1281 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1283 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1284 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1285 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1286 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1287 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1288 Closes: #185943, #237049
1290 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1292 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1298 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1299 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1300 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1301 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1302 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1303 running. closes: Bug#187250
1304 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1305 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1306 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1307 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1308 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1309 user closes: Bug#176506
1311 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1313 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1317 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1318 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1319 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1320 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1321 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1322 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1323 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1324 deb-building toolchain.
1325 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1326 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1327 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1328 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1329 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1330 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1331 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1332 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1333 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1334 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1335 sections about changelog files.
1337 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1338 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1339 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1340 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1341 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1342 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1344 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1345 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1346 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1347 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1348 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1349 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1350 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1351 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1352 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1353 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1354 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1355 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1356 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1357 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1358 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1359 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1360 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1361 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1362 for the restructuring
1364 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1366 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1371 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1372 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1373 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1374 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1375 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1376 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1378 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1379 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1380 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1381 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1382 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1383 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1384 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1386 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1387 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1388 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1389 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1391 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1393 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1397 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1398 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1399 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1400 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1401 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1403 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1404 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1405 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1406 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1408 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1409 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1410 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1411 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1412 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1413 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1414 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1415 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1416 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1417 offtopic stuff, too.
1418 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1419 script should start it, closes: #60979
1420 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1421 "should", closes: #170019
1422 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1423 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1424 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1425 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1426 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1427 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1428 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1429 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1432 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1434 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1438 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1439 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1440 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1441 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1442 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1443 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1444 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1445 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1447 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1448 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1449 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1450 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1451 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1452 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1453 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1454 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1455 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1457 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1458 file, closes: Bug#65764
1460 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1462 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1465 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1466 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1467 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1468 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1469 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1470 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1471 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1472 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1473 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1474 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1475 details. closes: Bug#133030
1476 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1477 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1478 parts of Bug#161455.
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1482 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1485 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1486 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1487 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1488 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1489 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1490 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1491 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1492 not. closes: Bug#139820
1493 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1494 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1495 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1496 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1497 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1498 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1499 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1500 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1501 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1502 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1504 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1506 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1507 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1508 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1509 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1510 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1511 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1512 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1513 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1514 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1515 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1516 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1517 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1518 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1519 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1520 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1521 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1522 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1523 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1524 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1525 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1527 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1528 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1529 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1530 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1531 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1532 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1533 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1535 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1536 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1537 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1538 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1539 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1540 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1541 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1542 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1543 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1545 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1547 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1550 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1551 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1552 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1553 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1554 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1555 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1556 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1557 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1558 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1559 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1560 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1561 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1562 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1563 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1564 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1565 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1566 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1567 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1568 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1569 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1570 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1571 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1573 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1575 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1578 medium, high, emergency.
1579 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1580 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1581 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1582 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1583 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1586 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1587 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1588 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1590 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1591 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1592 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1593 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1594 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1595 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1596 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1601 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1604 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1605 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1606 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1608 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1609 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1610 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1611 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1612 debian/rules to do this
1613 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1614 patches are incorporated upstream
1615 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1616 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1617 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1618 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1619 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1620 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1622 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1623 system closes: Bug#91249
1624 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1625 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1626 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1627 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1628 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1629 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1630 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1631 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1632 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1633 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1634 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1635 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1636 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1638 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1640 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1643 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1644 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1645 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1647 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1648 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1649 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1651 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1654 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1656 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1659 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1660 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1661 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1662 package for the time being
1663 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1664 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1665 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1666 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1667 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1668 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1669 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1670 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1671 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1672 Build-Depends arch syntax
1673 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1675 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1676 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1678 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1679 from policy maintenance duties.
1680 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1681 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1683 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1685 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1689 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1691 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1694 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1695 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1696 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1697 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1698 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1699 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1700 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1701 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1702 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1703 minor version number for this
1704 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1705 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1706 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1707 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1708 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1709 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1710 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1711 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1712 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1714 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1716 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1719 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1720 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1721 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1722 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1724 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1726 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1727 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1728 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1729 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1730 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1731 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1732 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1733 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1734 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1735 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1736 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1737 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1738 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1739 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1740 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1741 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1744 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1746 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1749 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1751 * Document the Enhances relationship
1752 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1753 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1754 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1755 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1756 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1757 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1759 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1761 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1762 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1763 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1764 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1766 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1767 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1768 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1769 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1770 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1772 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1774 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1777 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1778 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1780 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1781 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1782 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1783 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1784 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1785 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1786 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1787 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1788 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1790 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1792 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1794 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1797 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1798 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1799 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1800 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1801 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1802 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1803 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1804 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1805 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1806 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1807 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1808 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1809 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1810 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1811 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1812 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1813 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1814 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1815 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1816 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1817 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1819 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1820 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1822 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1824 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1827 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1828 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1829 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1830 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1831 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1832 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1833 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1834 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1835 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1836 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1837 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1838 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1839 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1840 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1841 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1842 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1843 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1844 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1845 list closes: Bug#53756
1846 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1847 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1848 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1849 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1850 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1851 policy closes: Bug#53760
1852 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1853 policy closes: Bug#53761
1854 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1855 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1856 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1857 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1858 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1859 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1860 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1861 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1862 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1863 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1864 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1866 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1867 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1868 to install with older fileutils.
1869 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1870 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1871 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1872 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1874 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1875 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1877 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1879 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1882 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1884 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1886 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1889 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1891 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1894 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1897 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1899 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1901 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1903 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1906 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1908 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1910 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1913 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1914 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1915 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1916 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1917 directoried (closes: #41547)
1918 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1919 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1920 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1921 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1922 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1923 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1924 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1925 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1926 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1927 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1928 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1930 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1931 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1932 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1933 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1934 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1935 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1936 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1938 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1939 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1940 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1941 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1943 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1945 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1947 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1948 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1950 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1952 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1955 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1957 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1959 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1962 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1964 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1965 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1966 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1967 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1968 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1969 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1970 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1971 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1972 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1973 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1974 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1975 this closes: Bug#38612
1976 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1977 before. closes: Bug#40864
1979 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1981 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1984 officially uploaded.
1985 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1987 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1988 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1989 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1991 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1992 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1993 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1994 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1995 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1996 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1998 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1999 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2000 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2002 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2004 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2005 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2006 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2007 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2008 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2012 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2015 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2016 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2017 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2018 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2019 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2020 there). closes: Bug#34233
2021 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2022 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2023 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2024 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2025 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2027 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2029 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2032 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2033 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2034 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2037 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2038 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2039 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2040 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2041 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2044 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2045 number. closes: BUG#25911
2047 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2048 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2049 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2050 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2051 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2052 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2054 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2055 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2056 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2059 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2060 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2061 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2063 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2064 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2065 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2066 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2068 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2069 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2070 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2072 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2074 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2075 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2076 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2077 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2078 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2079 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2080 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2081 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2084 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2086 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2087 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2090 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2092 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2096 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2098 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2101 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2102 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2103 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2104 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2105 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2106 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2107 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2109 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2110 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2112 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2114 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2116 * non-maintainer release
2117 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2118 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2120 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2121 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2122 * no content changes
2123 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2125 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2127 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2131 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2133 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2137 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2138 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2139 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2141 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2142 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2144 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2145 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2146 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2147 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2149 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2150 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2151 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2152 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2153 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2154 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2155 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2157 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2158 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2159 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2162 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2163 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2164 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2166 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2167 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2168 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2170 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2171 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2173 * New version numbering scheme:
2175 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2176 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2177 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2180 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2181 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2182 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2183 differ between the manuals.
2185 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2186 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2187 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2188 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2190 * Packaging changes:
2192 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2193 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2195 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2197 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2199 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2203 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2204 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2205 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2207 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2208 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2211 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2212 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2213 file extension as the referenced file
2215 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2216 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2218 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2219 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2220 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2221 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2224 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2225 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2226 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2228 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2229 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2230 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2231 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2234 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2235 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2238 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2239 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2240 reasonable default configuration
2242 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2243 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2244 by all news servers and clients
2246 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2247 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2248 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2249 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2250 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2252 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2253 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2256 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2258 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2259 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2261 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2264 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2265 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2267 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2268 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2270 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2272 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2274 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2277 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2278 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2279 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2281 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2283 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2284 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2285 * Don't use debstd anymore
2287 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2289 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2292 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2293 contrib/non-free policy
2294 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2295 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2296 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2297 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2298 - new section about `Daemons'
2299 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2300 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2301 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2302 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2303 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2304 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2305 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2306 * SGML source code included in package
2307 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2309 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2311 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2314 - completely reworked structure
2315 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2316 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2317 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2318 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2319 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2320 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2321 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2322 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2323 - mention "orphaned packages"
2324 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2325 distributions' policy
2326 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2327 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2328 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2329 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2330 - added section about arch spec strings
2331 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2332 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2333 - added section about "menus"
2334 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2335 the new documentation policy soon
2336 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2337 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2339 - added section about editors and pagers
2340 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2341 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2342 - added section about device files
2343 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2344 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2345 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2347 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2348 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2349 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2350 - Added new section about obsolete names
2351 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2352 * Fixed package's description
2354 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2356 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2360 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2362 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2365 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2366 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2367 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2369 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2371 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2374 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2375 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2377 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2378 and upload it "byhand" too.
2380 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2382 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2386 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2387 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2388 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2389 functionality must not have the same name.
2390 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2391 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2392 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2393 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2394 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2395 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2396 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2398 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2399 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2400 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2401 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2402 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2403 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2404 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2405 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2408 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2410 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2412 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2414 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2415 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2416 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2417 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2418 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2421 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2423 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2425 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2427 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2428 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2429 description of deb file format.
2430 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2431 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2433 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2435 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2436 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2438 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2440 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2442 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2443 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2444 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2445 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2446 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2447 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2448 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2449 packages in section on Procedure
2450 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2451 a package maintainer
2452 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2453 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2454 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2456 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2457 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2458 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2459 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2460 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2461 on various shlib files
2462 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2463 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2464 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2466 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2468 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2470 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2471 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2472 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2474 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2475 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2476 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2477 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2478 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2480 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2482 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2484 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2486 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2488 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2489 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2490 compatibility go in contrib.
2492 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2493 instructions in policy manual.
2494 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2497 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2499 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2501 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2502 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2503 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2504 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2506 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2507 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2510 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2512 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2514 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2515 * More detail about changelog format names.
2517 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2518 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2522 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2524 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2526 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2528 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2530 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2532 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2534 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2536 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2537 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2538 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2540 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2542 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2544 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2546 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2548 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2552 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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