1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
17 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
18 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
21 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
23 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
28 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
29 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
30 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
34 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
35 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
36 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
37 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
38 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
40 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
41 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
42 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
43 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
44 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
45 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
46 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
47 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
48 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
49 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
50 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
51 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
52 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
53 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
54 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
55 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
57 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
59 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
60 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
61 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
62 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
63 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
64 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
65 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
66 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
67 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
70 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
72 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
73 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
74 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
81 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
83 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
84 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
85 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
86 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
91 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
95 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
96 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
97 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
100 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
101 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
104 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
105 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
111 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
112 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
113 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
116 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
117 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
122 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
123 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
124 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
125 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
128 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
129 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
134 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
136 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
142 Closes: #459868, #581011
143 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
144 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
146 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
149 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
151 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
154 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
156 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
164 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
167 Closes: #501930, #593909
168 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
173 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
174 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
175 machine. (Closes: #591857)
176 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
177 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
178 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
179 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
180 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
181 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
182 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
183 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
184 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
185 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
187 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
188 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
189 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
190 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
191 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
192 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
193 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
194 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
195 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
196 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
197 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
198 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
199 than the version in oldstable.
200 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
201 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
202 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
203 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
204 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
205 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
206 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
207 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
208 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
209 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
210 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
211 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
212 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
213 package. (Closes: #609160)
215 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
217 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
225 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
236 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
240 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
245 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
246 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
250 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
251 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
258 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
260 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
261 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
263 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
265 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
266 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
271 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
272 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
277 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
278 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
282 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
283 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
287 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
288 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
292 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
293 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
297 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
302 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
303 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
307 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
309 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
310 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
311 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
312 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
313 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
314 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
315 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
316 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
317 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
319 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
320 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
321 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
322 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
323 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
324 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
326 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
328 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
334 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
337 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
338 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
339 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
340 and distribution license' (three times).
341 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
342 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
347 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
349 Proposed by Santiago Vila
350 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
363 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
367 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
374 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
378 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
380 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
381 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
384 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
386 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
387 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
390 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
394 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
408 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
413 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
414 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
419 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
420 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
421 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
424 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
425 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
430 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
431 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
435 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
436 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
437 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
438 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
439 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
440 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
441 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
442 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
443 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
444 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
445 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
446 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
447 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
448 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
449 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
450 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
451 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
452 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
453 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
454 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
455 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
456 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
457 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
458 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
459 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
460 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
461 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
462 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
463 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
464 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
465 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
466 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
468 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
470 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
472 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
476 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
478 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
479 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
483 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
486 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
487 Wording: Steve Langasek.
488 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
489 Seconded: Julien Cristau
490 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
493 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
494 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
495 Seconded: Russ Allbery
496 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
499 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
500 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
501 Seconded: Russ Allbery
503 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
504 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
505 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
506 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
507 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
508 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
509 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
510 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
513 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
514 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
515 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
516 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
517 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
518 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
519 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
521 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
522 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
523 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
524 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
525 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
526 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
527 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
530 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
531 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
532 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
533 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
534 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
536 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
539 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
540 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
543 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
544 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
547 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
549 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
556 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
557 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
561 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
566 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
567 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
570 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
571 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
573 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
579 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
584 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
585 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
589 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
594 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
595 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
599 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
600 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
604 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
605 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
606 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
607 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
608 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
609 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
610 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
611 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
612 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
613 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
614 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
615 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
616 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
617 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
618 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
620 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
621 Source field descriptions.
622 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
623 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
624 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
625 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
626 description says otherwise.
628 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
630 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
634 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
637 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
638 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
640 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
641 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
645 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
646 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
650 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
651 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
655 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
656 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
657 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
658 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
662 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
663 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
664 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
665 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
666 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
668 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
669 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
673 * Add myself to Uploaders.
676 * Add myself to Uploaders.
677 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
679 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
680 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
681 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
683 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
685 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
688 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
692 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
693 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
695 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
697 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
702 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
703 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
705 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
707 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
712 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
713 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
717 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
718 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
720 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
722 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
723 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
725 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
727 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
728 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
729 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
732 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
733 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
737 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
738 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
741 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
743 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
744 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
745 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
746 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
747 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
748 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
749 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
750 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
751 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
752 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
753 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
754 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
755 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
756 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
757 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
758 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
759 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
760 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
761 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
762 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
763 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
764 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
765 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
766 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
767 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
768 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
769 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
770 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
771 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
772 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
774 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
775 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
776 links was completed long ago.
777 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
779 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
781 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
784 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
786 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
788 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
791 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
792 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
793 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
794 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
795 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
796 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
797 Millan (Closes: #209008).
798 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
799 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
801 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
803 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
805 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
806 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
807 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
808 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
809 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
810 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
811 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
813 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
814 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
815 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
816 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
818 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
819 Küster (Closes: #403391).
820 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
821 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
822 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
823 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
824 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
825 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
829 Closes: #186700, #458910
830 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
831 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
834 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
835 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
836 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
837 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
838 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
839 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
840 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
841 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
843 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
844 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
846 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
847 * Add an md5sums control file.
848 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
849 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
850 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
851 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
852 currently part of policy.
853 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
854 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
855 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
858 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
860 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
863 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
864 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
865 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
866 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
867 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
868 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
869 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
870 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
871 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
872 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
873 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
874 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
875 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
876 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
877 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
879 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
881 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
882 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
883 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
885 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
886 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
887 list?" (Closes: #412634).
888 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
889 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
890 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
891 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
892 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
893 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
894 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
895 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
896 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
897 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
898 debconf specification.
899 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
900 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
902 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
904 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
907 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
909 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
910 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
914 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
915 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
916 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
917 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
918 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
920 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
921 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
922 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
923 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
924 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
925 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
926 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
927 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
928 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
929 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
930 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
931 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
932 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
933 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
934 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
940 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
941 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
942 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
944 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
945 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
946 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
948 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
950 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
953 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
954 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
955 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
956 Polo (Closes: #372497).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
958 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
960 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
961 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
962 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
963 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
964 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
965 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
967 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
968 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
969 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
971 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
972 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
973 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
974 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
975 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
976 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
978 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
980 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
983 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
984 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
985 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
988 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
990 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
992 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
995 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
996 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
997 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
998 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
999 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1000 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1001 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1002 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1003 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1005 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1006 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1008 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1009 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1010 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1011 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1012 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1014 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1015 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1018 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1020 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1023 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1025 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1026 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1027 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1028 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1029 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1030 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1031 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1032 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1033 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1034 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1035 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1036 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1037 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1038 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1039 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1040 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1041 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1042 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1043 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1044 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1045 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1046 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1047 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1048 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1049 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1051 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1052 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1053 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1054 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1055 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1056 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1057 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1058 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1059 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1060 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1061 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1062 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1063 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1064 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1065 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1066 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1069 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1072 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1074 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1075 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1076 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1077 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1078 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1079 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1080 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1081 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1083 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1085 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1089 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1090 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1091 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1092 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1093 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1094 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1095 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1097 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1098 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1099 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1100 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1103 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1105 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1106 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1108 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1110 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1112 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1114 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1116 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1117 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1118 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1120 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1123 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1125 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1128 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1129 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1130 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1132 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1133 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1135 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1137 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1139 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1143 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1144 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1145 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1146 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1148 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1149 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1150 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1151 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1154 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1155 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1158 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1159 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1161 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1162 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1163 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1165 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1166 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1167 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1168 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1170 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1171 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1172 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1173 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1174 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1175 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1176 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1177 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1180 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1181 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1182 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1183 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1184 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1185 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1186 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1188 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1189 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1190 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1191 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1192 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1193 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1194 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1195 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1197 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1199 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1203 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1204 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1205 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1206 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1207 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1208 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1209 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1210 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1212 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1213 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1214 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1215 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1216 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1217 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1218 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1219 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1220 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1221 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1222 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1223 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1225 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1226 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1227 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1231 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1232 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1235 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1236 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1237 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1239 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1240 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1241 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1242 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1243 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1244 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1246 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1247 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1249 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1250 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1251 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1252 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1253 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1254 Closes: #185943, #237049
1256 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1258 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1264 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1265 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1266 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1267 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1268 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1269 running. closes: Bug#187250
1270 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1271 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1272 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1273 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1274 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1275 user closes: Bug#176506
1277 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1279 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1283 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1284 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1285 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1286 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1287 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1288 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1289 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1290 deb-building toolchain.
1291 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1292 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1293 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1294 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1295 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1296 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1297 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1298 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1299 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1300 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1301 sections about changelog files.
1303 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1304 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1305 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1306 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1307 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1308 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1310 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1311 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1312 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1313 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1314 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1315 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1316 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1317 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1318 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1319 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1320 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1321 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1322 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1323 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1324 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1325 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1326 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1327 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1328 for the restructuring
1330 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1332 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1337 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1338 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1339 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1340 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1341 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1342 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1344 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1345 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1346 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1347 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1348 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1349 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1350 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1352 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1353 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1354 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1355 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1357 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1359 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1363 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1364 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1365 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1366 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1367 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1369 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1370 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1371 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1372 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1374 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1375 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1376 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1377 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1378 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1379 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1380 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1381 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1382 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1383 offtopic stuff, too.
1384 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1385 script should start it, closes: #60979
1386 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1387 "should", closes: #170019
1388 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1389 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1390 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1391 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1392 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1393 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1394 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1395 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1398 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1400 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1404 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1405 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1406 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1407 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1408 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1409 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1410 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1411 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1413 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1414 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1415 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1416 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1417 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1418 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1419 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1420 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1421 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1423 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1424 file, closes: Bug#65764
1426 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1428 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1431 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1432 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1433 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1434 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1435 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1436 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1437 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1438 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1439 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1440 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1441 details. closes: Bug#133030
1442 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1443 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1444 parts of Bug#161455.
1446 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1448 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1451 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1452 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1453 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1454 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1455 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1456 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1457 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1458 not. closes: Bug#139820
1459 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1460 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1461 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1462 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1463 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1464 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1465 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1466 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1467 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1468 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1470 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1472 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1473 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1474 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1475 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1476 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1477 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1478 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1479 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1480 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1481 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1482 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1483 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1484 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1485 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1486 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1487 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1488 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1489 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1490 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1491 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1493 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1494 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1495 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1496 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1497 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1498 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1499 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1501 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1502 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1503 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1504 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1505 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1506 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1507 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1508 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1509 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1511 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1513 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1516 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1517 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1518 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1519 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1520 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1521 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1522 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1523 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1524 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1525 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1526 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1527 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1528 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1529 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1530 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1531 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1532 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1533 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1534 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1535 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1536 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1537 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1539 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1541 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1544 medium, high, emergency.
1545 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1546 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1547 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1548 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1549 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1552 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1553 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1554 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1556 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1557 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1558 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1559 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1560 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1561 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1562 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1565 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1567 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1570 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1571 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1572 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1574 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1575 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1576 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1577 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1578 debian/rules to do this
1579 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1580 patches are incorporated upstream
1581 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1582 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1583 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1584 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1585 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1586 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1588 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1589 system closes: Bug#91249
1590 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1591 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1592 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1593 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1594 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1595 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1596 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1597 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1598 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1599 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1600 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1601 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1602 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1604 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1606 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1609 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1610 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1611 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1613 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1614 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1615 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1617 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1622 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1625 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1626 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1627 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1628 package for the time being
1629 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1630 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1631 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1632 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1633 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1634 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1635 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1636 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1637 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1638 Build-Depends arch syntax
1639 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1641 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1642 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1644 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1645 from policy maintenance duties.
1646 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1647 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1649 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1651 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1655 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1657 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1660 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1661 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1662 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1663 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1664 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1665 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1666 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1667 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1668 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1669 minor version number for this
1670 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1671 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1672 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1673 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1674 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1675 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1676 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1677 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1678 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1680 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1682 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1685 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1686 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1687 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1688 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1690 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1692 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1693 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1694 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1695 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1696 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1697 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1698 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1699 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1700 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1701 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1702 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1703 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1704 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1705 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1706 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1707 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1712 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1715 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1717 * Document the Enhances relationship
1718 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1719 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1720 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1721 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1722 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1723 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1725 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1727 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1728 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1729 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1730 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1732 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1733 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1734 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1735 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1736 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1740 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1743 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1744 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1746 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1747 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1748 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1749 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1750 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1751 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1752 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1753 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1754 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1756 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1758 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1760 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1763 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1764 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1765 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1766 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1767 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1768 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1769 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1770 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1771 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1772 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1773 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1774 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1775 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1776 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1777 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1778 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1779 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1780 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1781 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1782 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1783 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1785 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1786 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1790 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1793 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1794 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1795 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1796 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1797 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1798 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1799 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1800 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1801 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1802 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1803 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1804 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1805 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1806 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1807 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1808 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1809 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1810 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1811 list closes: Bug#53756
1812 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1813 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1814 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1815 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1816 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1817 policy closes: Bug#53760
1818 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1819 policy closes: Bug#53761
1820 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1821 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1822 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1823 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1824 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1825 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1826 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1827 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1828 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1829 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1830 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1832 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1833 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1834 to install with older fileutils.
1835 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1836 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1837 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1838 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1840 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1841 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1843 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1845 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1848 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1850 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1852 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1855 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1857 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1860 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1863 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1865 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1867 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1869 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1872 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1874 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1876 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1879 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1880 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1881 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1882 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1883 directoried (closes: #41547)
1884 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1885 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1886 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1887 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1888 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1889 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1890 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1891 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1892 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1893 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1894 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1896 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1897 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1898 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1899 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1900 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1901 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1902 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1904 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1905 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1906 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1907 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1909 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1911 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1913 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1914 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1916 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1918 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1921 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1923 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1925 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1928 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1930 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1931 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1932 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1933 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1934 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1935 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1936 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1937 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1938 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1939 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1940 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1941 this closes: Bug#38612
1942 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1943 before. closes: Bug#40864
1945 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1947 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1950 officially uploaded.
1951 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1953 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1954 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1955 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1957 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1958 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1959 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1960 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1961 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1962 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1964 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1965 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1966 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1968 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1970 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1971 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1972 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1973 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1974 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1976 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1978 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1981 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1982 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1983 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1984 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1985 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1986 there). closes: Bug#34233
1987 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1988 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1989 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1990 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1991 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1993 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1995 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1998 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1999 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2000 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2003 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2004 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2005 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2006 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2007 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2010 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2011 number. closes: BUG#25911
2013 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2014 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2015 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2016 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2017 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2018 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2020 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2021 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2022 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2025 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2026 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2027 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2029 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2030 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2031 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2032 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2034 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2035 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2036 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2038 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2040 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2041 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2042 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2043 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2044 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2045 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2046 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2047 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2050 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2052 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2053 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2056 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2058 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2062 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2064 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2067 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2068 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2069 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2070 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2071 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2072 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2073 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2075 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2076 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2078 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2080 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2082 * non-maintainer release
2083 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2084 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2086 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2087 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2088 * no content changes
2089 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2091 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2093 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2097 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2099 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2103 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2104 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2105 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2107 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2108 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2110 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2111 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2112 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2113 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2115 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2116 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2117 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2118 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2119 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2120 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2121 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2123 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2124 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2125 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2128 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2129 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2130 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2132 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2133 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2134 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2136 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2137 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2139 * New version numbering scheme:
2141 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2142 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2143 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2146 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2147 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2148 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2149 differ between the manuals.
2151 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2152 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2153 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2154 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2156 * Packaging changes:
2158 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2159 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2161 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2163 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2165 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2169 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2170 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2171 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2173 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2174 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2177 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2178 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2179 file extension as the referenced file
2181 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2182 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2184 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2185 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2186 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2187 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2190 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2191 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2192 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2194 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2195 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2196 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2197 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2200 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2201 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2204 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2205 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2206 reasonable default configuration
2208 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2209 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2210 by all news servers and clients
2212 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2213 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2214 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2215 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2216 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2218 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2219 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2222 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2224 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2225 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2227 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2230 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2231 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2233 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2234 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2236 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2238 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2240 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2243 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2244 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2245 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2247 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2249 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2250 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2251 * Don't use debstd anymore
2253 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2255 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2258 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2259 contrib/non-free policy
2260 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2261 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2262 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2263 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2264 - new section about `Daemons'
2265 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2266 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2267 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2268 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2269 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2270 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2271 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2272 * SGML source code included in package
2273 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2275 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2277 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2280 - completely reworked structure
2281 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2282 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2283 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2284 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2285 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2286 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2287 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2288 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2289 - mention "orphaned packages"
2290 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2291 distributions' policy
2292 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2293 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2294 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2295 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2296 - added section about arch spec strings
2297 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2298 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2299 - added section about "menus"
2300 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2301 the new documentation policy soon
2302 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2303 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2305 - added section about editors and pagers
2306 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2307 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2308 - added section about device files
2309 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2310 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2311 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2313 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2314 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2315 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2316 - Added new section about obsolete names
2317 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2318 * Fixed package's description
2320 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2322 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2326 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2328 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2331 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2332 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2333 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2335 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2337 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2340 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2341 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2343 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2344 and upload it "byhand" too.
2346 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2348 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2352 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2353 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2354 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2355 functionality must not have the same name.
2356 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2357 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2358 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2359 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2360 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2361 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2362 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2364 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2365 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2366 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2367 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2368 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2369 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2370 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2371 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2374 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2376 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2378 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2380 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2381 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2382 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2383 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2384 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2387 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2389 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2391 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2393 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2394 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2395 description of deb file format.
2396 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2397 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2399 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2401 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2402 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2404 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2406 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2408 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2409 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2410 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2411 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2412 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2413 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2414 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2415 packages in section on Procedure
2416 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2417 a package maintainer
2418 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2419 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2420 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2422 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2423 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2424 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2425 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2426 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2427 on various shlib files
2428 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2429 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2430 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2432 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2434 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2436 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2437 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2438 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2440 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2441 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2442 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2443 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2444 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2446 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2448 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2450 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2452 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2454 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2455 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2456 compatibility go in contrib.
2458 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2459 instructions in policy manual.
2460 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2463 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2465 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2467 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2468 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2469 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2470 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2472 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2473 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2476 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2478 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2480 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2481 * More detail about changelog format names.
2483 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2484 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2488 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2490 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2492 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2494 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2496 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2498 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2500 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2502 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2503 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2504 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2506 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2508 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2510 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2512 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2514 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2518 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100