1 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
4 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
5 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
6 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
9 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
11 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
12 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
17 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
21 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
22 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
29 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
40 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:30:33 -0700
42 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
45 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
46 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
47 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
48 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
50 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
51 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
52 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
53 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
54 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
55 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
56 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
57 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
58 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
59 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
60 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
61 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
62 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
63 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
64 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
65 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
66 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
68 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
69 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
70 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
71 good to know which version one is looking at.
72 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
73 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
74 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
75 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
76 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
77 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
78 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
80 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
81 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
82 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
83 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
84 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
86 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
87 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
88 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
90 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
91 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
92 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
93 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
95 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
97 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
101 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
102 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
103 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
104 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
105 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
106 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
107 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
108 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
109 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
110 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
116 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
121 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
122 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
123 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
126 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
128 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
133 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
137 Closes: #620870, #532120
138 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
139 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
144 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
145 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
146 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
150 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
151 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
152 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
153 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
154 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
156 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
157 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
158 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
159 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
160 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
161 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
162 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
163 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
164 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
165 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
166 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
167 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
168 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
169 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
170 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
171 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
173 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
175 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
176 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
177 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
178 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
179 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
180 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
181 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
182 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
183 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
184 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
187 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
189 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
190 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
191 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
197 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
198 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
200 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
201 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
202 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
203 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
208 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
212 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
213 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
214 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
217 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
218 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
219 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
221 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
222 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
228 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
229 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
230 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
233 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
234 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
239 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
240 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
241 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
242 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
245 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
246 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
247 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
250 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
251 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
256 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
258 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
261 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
264 Closes: #459868, #581011
265 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
266 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
268 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
270 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
271 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
273 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
276 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
278 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
280 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
281 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
286 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
289 Closes: #501930, #593909
290 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
295 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
296 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
297 machine. (Closes: #591857)
298 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
299 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
300 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
301 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
302 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
303 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
304 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
305 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
306 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
307 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
309 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
310 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
311 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
312 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
313 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
314 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
315 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
316 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
317 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
318 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
319 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
320 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
321 than the version in oldstable.
322 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
323 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
324 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
325 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
326 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
327 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
328 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
329 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
330 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
331 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
332 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
333 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
334 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
335 package. (Closes: #609160)
337 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
339 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
347 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
348 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
352 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
367 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
372 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
373 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
380 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
382 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
383 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
385 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
387 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
388 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
393 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
394 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
399 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
400 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
404 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
405 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
409 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
414 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
419 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
420 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
424 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
425 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
429 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
431 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
432 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
433 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
434 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
435 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
436 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
437 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
438 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
439 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
441 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
442 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
443 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
444 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
445 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
446 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
448 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
450 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
456 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
459 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
460 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
461 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
462 and distribution license' (three times).
463 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
464 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
469 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
471 Proposed by Santiago Vila
472 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
485 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
489 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
491 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
492 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
500 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
502 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
503 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
506 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
508 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
509 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
512 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
514 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
515 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
516 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
519 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
525 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
526 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
530 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
531 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
535 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
541 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
542 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
543 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
546 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
547 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
552 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
553 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
557 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
558 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
559 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
560 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
561 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
562 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
563 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
564 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
565 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
566 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
567 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
568 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
569 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
570 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
571 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
572 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
573 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
574 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
575 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
576 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
577 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
578 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
579 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
580 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
581 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
582 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
583 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
584 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
585 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
586 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
587 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
588 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
590 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
592 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
594 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
598 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
600 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
601 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
605 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
608 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
609 Wording: Steve Langasek.
610 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
611 Seconded: Julien Cristau
612 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
615 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
616 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
617 Seconded: Russ Allbery
618 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
621 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
622 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
623 Seconded: Russ Allbery
625 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
626 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
627 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
628 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
629 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
630 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
631 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
632 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
635 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
636 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
637 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
638 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
639 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
640 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
641 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
643 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
644 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
645 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
646 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
647 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
648 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
649 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
652 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
653 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
654 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
655 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
656 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
658 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
661 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
662 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
665 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
666 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
669 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
671 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
674 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
678 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
679 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
683 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
684 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
688 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
689 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
692 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
693 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
695 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
696 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
701 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
702 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
706 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
707 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
711 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
712 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
716 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
717 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
721 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
722 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
726 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
727 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
728 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
729 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
730 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
731 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
732 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
733 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
734 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
735 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
736 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
737 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
738 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
739 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
740 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
742 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
743 Source field descriptions.
744 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
745 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
746 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
747 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
748 description says otherwise.
750 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
752 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
756 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
759 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
760 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
762 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
763 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
767 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
768 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
772 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
773 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
777 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
778 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
779 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
780 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
784 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
785 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
786 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
787 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
788 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
790 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
791 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
795 * Add myself to Uploaders.
798 * Add myself to Uploaders.
799 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
801 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
802 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
803 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
805 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
807 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
810 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
812 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
814 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
815 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
817 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
819 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
820 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
824 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
825 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
827 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
829 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
830 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
831 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
834 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
835 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
836 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
839 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
840 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
842 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
844 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
845 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
847 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
849 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
850 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
851 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
852 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
854 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
855 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
857 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
859 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
860 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
863 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
865 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
866 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
867 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
868 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
869 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
870 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
871 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
872 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
873 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
874 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
875 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
876 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
877 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
878 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
879 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
880 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
881 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
882 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
883 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
884 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
885 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
886 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
887 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
888 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
889 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
890 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
891 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
892 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
893 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
894 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
896 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
897 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
898 links was completed long ago.
899 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
901 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
903 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
906 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
908 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
910 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
913 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
914 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
915 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
916 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
917 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
918 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
919 Millan (Closes: #209008).
920 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
921 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
923 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
925 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
927 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
928 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
929 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
930 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
931 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
932 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
933 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
935 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
936 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
937 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
938 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
940 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
941 Küster (Closes: #403391).
942 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
943 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
944 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
945 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
946 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
947 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
951 Closes: #186700, #458910
952 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
953 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
954 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
956 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
957 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
958 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
959 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
960 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
961 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
962 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
963 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
965 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
966 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
968 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
969 * Add an md5sums control file.
970 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
971 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
972 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
973 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
974 currently part of policy.
975 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
976 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
977 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
980 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
982 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
985 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
986 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
987 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
988 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
989 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
990 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
991 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
992 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
993 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
995 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
996 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
997 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
998 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
999 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1001 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1003 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1004 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1005 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1007 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1008 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1009 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1010 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1011 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1012 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1013 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1014 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1015 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1016 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1017 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1018 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1019 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1020 debconf specification.
1021 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1022 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1024 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1026 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1029 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1031 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1032 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1037 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1038 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1039 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1040 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1042 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1043 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1044 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1045 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1046 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1047 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1048 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1049 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1050 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1051 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1052 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1053 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1054 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1055 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1056 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1057 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1059 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1061 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1062 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1063 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1064 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1066 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1067 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1068 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1070 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1072 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1075 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1076 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1078 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1080 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1083 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1084 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1085 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1086 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1087 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1089 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1090 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1091 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1093 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1094 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1095 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1096 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1097 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1098 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1100 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1102 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1105 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1106 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1107 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1110 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1112 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1114 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1117 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1118 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1119 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1120 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1121 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1122 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1123 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1124 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1125 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1127 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1128 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1130 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1131 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1132 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1134 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1136 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1137 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1140 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1142 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1145 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1147 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1148 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1149 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1150 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1151 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1152 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1153 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1154 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1155 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1156 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1157 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1158 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1159 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1160 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1161 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1162 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1163 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1165 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1166 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1167 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1168 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1169 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1170 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1171 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1173 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1174 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1175 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1176 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1178 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1179 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1180 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1181 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1182 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1183 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1184 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1185 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1186 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1187 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1188 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1191 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1194 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1195 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1196 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1197 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1198 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1199 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1200 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1201 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1202 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1203 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1205 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1207 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1211 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1212 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1213 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1215 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1216 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1217 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1219 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1220 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1221 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1225 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1226 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1227 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1228 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1230 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1232 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1234 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1236 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1237 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1238 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1239 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1240 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1242 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1247 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1250 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1251 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1252 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1254 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1255 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1256 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1257 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1259 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1261 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1265 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1266 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1267 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1268 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1270 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1271 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1272 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1273 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1276 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1277 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1280 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1281 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1283 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1284 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1285 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1287 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1288 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1289 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1290 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1293 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1294 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1295 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1297 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1298 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1299 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1302 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1303 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1304 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1306 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1307 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1308 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1310 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1311 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1312 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1313 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1314 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1315 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1316 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1317 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1319 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1321 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1325 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1326 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1327 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1328 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1329 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1330 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1331 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1332 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1334 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1335 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1336 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1337 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1338 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1339 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1340 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1341 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1342 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1343 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1344 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1345 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1347 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1348 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1349 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1353 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1354 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1357 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1358 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1359 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1361 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1362 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1363 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1364 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1365 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1366 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1368 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1369 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1371 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1372 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1373 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1374 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1375 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1376 Closes: #185943, #237049
1378 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1380 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1386 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1387 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1388 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1389 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1390 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1391 running. closes: Bug#187250
1392 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1393 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1394 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1395 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1396 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1397 user closes: Bug#176506
1399 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1401 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1405 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1406 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1407 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1408 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1409 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1410 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1411 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1412 deb-building toolchain.
1413 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1414 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1415 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1416 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1417 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1418 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1419 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1420 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1421 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1422 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1423 sections about changelog files.
1425 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1426 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1427 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1428 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1429 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1430 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1432 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1433 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1434 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1435 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1436 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1437 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1438 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1439 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1440 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1441 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1442 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1443 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1444 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1445 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1446 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1447 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1448 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1449 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1450 for the restructuring
1452 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1454 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1459 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1460 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1461 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1462 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1463 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1464 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1466 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1467 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1468 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1469 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1470 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1471 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1472 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1474 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1475 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1476 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1477 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1479 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1481 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1485 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1486 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1487 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1488 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1489 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1491 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1492 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1493 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1494 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1496 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1497 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1498 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1499 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1500 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1501 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1502 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1503 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1504 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1505 offtopic stuff, too.
1506 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1507 script should start it, closes: #60979
1508 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1509 "should", closes: #170019
1510 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1511 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1512 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1513 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1514 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1515 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1516 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1517 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1520 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1522 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1526 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1527 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1528 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1529 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1530 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1531 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1532 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1533 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1535 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1536 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1537 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1538 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1539 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1540 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1541 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1542 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1543 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1545 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1546 file, closes: Bug#65764
1548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1550 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1553 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1554 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1555 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1556 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1557 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1558 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1559 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1560 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1561 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1562 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1563 details. closes: Bug#133030
1564 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1565 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1566 parts of Bug#161455.
1568 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1570 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1573 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1574 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1575 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1576 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1577 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1578 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1579 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1580 not. closes: Bug#139820
1581 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1582 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1583 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1584 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1585 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1586 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1587 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1588 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1589 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1590 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1592 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1594 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1595 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1596 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1597 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1598 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1599 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1600 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1601 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1602 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1603 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1604 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1605 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1606 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1607 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1608 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1609 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1610 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1611 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1612 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1613 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1615 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1616 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1617 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1618 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1619 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1620 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1621 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1623 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1624 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1625 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1626 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1627 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1628 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1629 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1630 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1631 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1633 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1635 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1638 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1639 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1640 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1641 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1642 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1643 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1644 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1645 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1646 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1647 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1648 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1649 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1650 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1651 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1652 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1653 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1654 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1655 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1656 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1657 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1658 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1659 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1661 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1663 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1666 medium, high, emergency.
1667 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1668 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1669 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1670 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1671 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1674 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1675 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1676 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1678 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1679 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1680 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1681 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1682 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1683 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1684 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1689 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1692 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1693 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1694 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1696 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1697 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1698 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1699 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1700 debian/rules to do this
1701 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1702 patches are incorporated upstream
1703 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1704 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1705 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1706 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1707 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1708 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1710 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1711 system closes: Bug#91249
1712 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1713 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1714 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1715 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1716 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1717 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1718 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1719 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1720 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1721 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1722 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1723 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1724 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1726 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1728 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1731 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1732 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1733 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1735 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1736 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1737 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1739 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1742 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1744 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1747 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1748 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1749 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1750 package for the time being
1751 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1752 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1753 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1754 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1755 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1756 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1757 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1758 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1759 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1760 Build-Depends arch syntax
1761 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1763 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1764 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1766 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1767 from policy maintenance duties.
1768 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1769 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1771 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1773 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1777 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1779 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1782 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1783 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1784 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1785 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1786 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1787 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1788 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1789 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1790 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1791 minor version number for this
1792 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1793 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1794 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1795 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1796 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1797 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1798 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1799 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1800 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1802 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1804 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1807 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1808 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1809 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1810 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1812 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1814 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1815 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1816 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1817 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1818 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1819 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1820 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1821 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1822 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1823 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1824 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1825 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1826 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1827 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1828 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1829 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1832 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1834 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1837 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1839 * Document the Enhances relationship
1840 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1841 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1842 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1843 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1844 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1845 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1847 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1849 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1850 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1851 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1852 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1854 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1855 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1856 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1857 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1858 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1860 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1862 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1865 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1866 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1868 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1869 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1870 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1871 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1872 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1873 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1874 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1875 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1876 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1878 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1880 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1882 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1885 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1886 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1887 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1888 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1889 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1890 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1891 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1892 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1893 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1894 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1895 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1896 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1897 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1898 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1899 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1900 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1901 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1902 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1903 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1904 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1905 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1907 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1908 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1910 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1912 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1915 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1916 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1917 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1918 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1919 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1920 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1921 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1922 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1923 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1924 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1925 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1926 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1927 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1928 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1929 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1930 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1931 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1932 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1933 list closes: Bug#53756
1934 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1935 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1936 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1937 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1938 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1939 policy closes: Bug#53760
1940 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1941 policy closes: Bug#53761
1942 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1943 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1944 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1945 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1946 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1947 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1948 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1949 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1950 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1951 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1952 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1954 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1955 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1956 to install with older fileutils.
1957 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1958 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1959 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1960 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1962 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1963 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1965 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1967 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1970 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1974 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1977 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1979 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1982 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1985 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1987 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1989 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1991 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1994 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1996 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1998 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2001 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2002 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2003 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2004 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2005 directoried (closes: #41547)
2006 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2007 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2008 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2009 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2010 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2011 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2012 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2013 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2014 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2015 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2016 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2018 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2019 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2020 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2021 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2022 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2023 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2024 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2026 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2027 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2028 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2029 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2031 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2033 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2035 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2036 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2038 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2040 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2043 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2045 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2047 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2050 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2052 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2053 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2054 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2055 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2056 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2057 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2058 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2059 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2060 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2061 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2062 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2063 this closes: Bug#38612
2064 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2065 before. closes: Bug#40864
2067 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2069 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2072 officially uploaded.
2073 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2075 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2076 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2077 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2079 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2080 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2081 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2082 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2083 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2084 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2086 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2087 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2088 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2090 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2092 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2093 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2094 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2095 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2096 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2098 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2100 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2103 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2104 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2105 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2106 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2107 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2108 there). closes: Bug#34233
2109 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2110 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2111 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2112 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2113 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2115 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2117 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2120 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2121 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2122 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2125 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2126 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2127 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2128 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2129 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2132 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2133 number. closes: BUG#25911
2135 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2136 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2137 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2138 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2139 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2140 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2142 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2143 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2144 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2147 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2148 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2149 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2151 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2152 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2153 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2154 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2156 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2157 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2158 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2160 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2162 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2163 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2164 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2165 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2166 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2167 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2168 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2169 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2172 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2174 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2175 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2180 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2184 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2186 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2189 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2190 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2191 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2192 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2193 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2194 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2195 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2197 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2198 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2200 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2202 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2204 * non-maintainer release
2205 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2206 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2208 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2209 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2210 * no content changes
2211 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2213 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2215 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2219 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2221 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2225 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2226 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2227 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2229 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2230 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2232 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2233 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2234 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2235 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2237 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2238 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2239 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2240 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2241 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2242 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2243 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2245 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2246 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2247 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2250 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2251 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2252 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2254 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2255 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2256 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2258 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2259 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2261 * New version numbering scheme:
2263 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2264 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2265 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2268 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2269 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2270 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2271 differ between the manuals.
2273 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2274 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2275 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2276 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2278 * Packaging changes:
2280 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2281 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2283 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2285 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2287 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2291 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2292 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2293 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2295 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2296 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2299 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2300 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2301 file extension as the referenced file
2303 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2304 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2306 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2307 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2308 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2309 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2312 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2313 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2314 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2316 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2317 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2318 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2319 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2322 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2323 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2326 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2327 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2328 reasonable default configuration
2330 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2331 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2332 by all news servers and clients
2334 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2335 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2336 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2337 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2338 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2340 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2341 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2344 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2346 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2347 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2349 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2352 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2353 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2355 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2356 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2358 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2360 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2362 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2365 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2366 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2367 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2369 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2371 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2372 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2373 * Don't use debstd anymore
2375 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2377 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2380 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2381 contrib/non-free policy
2382 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2383 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2384 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2385 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2386 - new section about `Daemons'
2387 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2388 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2389 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2390 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2391 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2392 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2393 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2394 * SGML source code included in package
2395 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2397 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2399 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2402 - completely reworked structure
2403 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2404 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2405 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2406 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2407 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2408 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2409 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2410 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2411 - mention "orphaned packages"
2412 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2413 distributions' policy
2414 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2415 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2416 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2417 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2418 - added section about arch spec strings
2419 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2420 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2421 - added section about "menus"
2422 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2423 the new documentation policy soon
2424 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2425 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2427 - added section about editors and pagers
2428 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2429 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2430 - added section about device files
2431 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2432 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2433 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2435 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2436 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2437 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2438 - Added new section about obsolete names
2439 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2440 * Fixed package's description
2442 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2444 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2448 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2450 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2453 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2454 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2455 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2457 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2459 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2462 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2463 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2465 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2466 and upload it "byhand" too.
2468 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2470 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2474 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2475 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2476 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2477 functionality must not have the same name.
2478 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2479 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2480 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2481 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2482 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2483 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2484 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2486 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2487 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2488 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2489 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2490 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2491 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2492 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2493 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2496 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2498 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2500 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2502 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2503 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2504 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2505 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2506 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2509 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2511 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2513 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2515 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2516 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2517 description of deb file format.
2518 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2519 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2521 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2523 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2524 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2526 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2528 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2530 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2531 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2532 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2533 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2534 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2535 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2536 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2537 packages in section on Procedure
2538 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2539 a package maintainer
2540 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2541 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2542 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2544 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2545 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2546 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2547 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2548 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2549 on various shlib files
2550 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2551 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2552 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2554 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2556 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2558 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2559 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2560 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2562 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2563 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2564 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2565 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2566 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2568 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2570 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2572 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2574 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2576 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2577 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2578 compatibility go in contrib.
2580 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2581 instructions in policy manual.
2582 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2585 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2587 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2589 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2590 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2591 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2592 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2594 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2595 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2598 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2600 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2602 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2603 * More detail about changelog format names.
2605 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2606 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2610 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2612 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2614 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2616 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2618 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2620 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2622 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2624 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2625 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2626 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2628 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2630 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2632 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2634 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2636 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2640 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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