1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
14 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
16 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
17 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
18 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
19 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
20 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
21 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
22 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
23 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
26 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
28 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
29 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
30 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
31 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
36 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
37 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
39 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
40 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
41 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
42 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
45 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
47 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
51 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
52 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
53 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
56 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
57 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
58 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
60 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
61 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
67 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
68 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
72 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
73 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
78 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
79 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
80 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
81 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
84 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
85 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
90 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
92 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
98 Closes: #459868, #581011
99 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
100 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
102 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
105 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
110 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
112 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
115 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
120 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
123 Closes: #501930, #593909
124 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
129 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
130 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
131 machine. (Closes: #591857)
132 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
133 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
134 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
135 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
136 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
137 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
138 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
139 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
140 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
141 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
143 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
144 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
145 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
146 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
147 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
148 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
149 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
150 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
151 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
152 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
153 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
154 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
155 than the version in oldstable.
156 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
157 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
158 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
159 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
160 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
161 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
162 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
163 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
164 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
165 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
166 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
167 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
168 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
169 package. (Closes: #609160)
171 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
173 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
181 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
187 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
191 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
196 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
207 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
214 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
217 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
219 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
221 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
233 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
234 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
238 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
239 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
243 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
244 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
248 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
253 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
258 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
259 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
263 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
265 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
266 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
267 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
268 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
269 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
270 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
271 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
272 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
273 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
275 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
276 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
277 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
278 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
279 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
280 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
282 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
284 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
290 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
293 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
294 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
295 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
296 and distribution license' (three times).
297 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
298 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
303 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
305 Proposed by Santiago Vila
306 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
313 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
318 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
319 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
323 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
330 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
334 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
336 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
337 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
340 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
342 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
343 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
346 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
348 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
349 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
350 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
353 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
354 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
360 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
364 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
365 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
369 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
375 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
376 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
377 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
380 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
381 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
386 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
387 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
391 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
392 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
393 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
394 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
395 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
396 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
397 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
398 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
399 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
400 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
401 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
402 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
403 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
404 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
405 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
406 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
407 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
408 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
409 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
410 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
411 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
412 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
413 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
414 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
415 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
416 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
417 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
418 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
419 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
420 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
421 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
422 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
424 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
426 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
428 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
432 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
434 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
435 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
439 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
442 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
443 Wording: Steve Langasek.
444 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
445 Seconded: Julien Cristau
446 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
449 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
450 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery
452 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
455 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
456 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
457 Seconded: Russ Allbery
459 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
460 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
461 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
462 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
463 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
464 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
465 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
469 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
470 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
471 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
472 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
473 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
474 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
475 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
477 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
478 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
479 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
480 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
481 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
482 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
483 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
486 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
487 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
488 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
489 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
490 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
492 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
495 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
499 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
500 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
503 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
505 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
508 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
512 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
513 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
517 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
522 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
523 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
526 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
527 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
529 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
541 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
545 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
555 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
556 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
560 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
561 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
562 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
563 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
564 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
565 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
566 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
567 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
568 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
569 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
570 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
571 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
572 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
573 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
574 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
576 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
577 Source field descriptions.
578 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
579 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
580 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
581 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
582 description says otherwise.
584 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
586 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
590 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
593 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
594 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
597 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
601 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
606 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
607 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
611 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
612 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
613 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
614 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
618 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
619 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
620 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
621 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
622 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
624 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
625 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 * Add myself to Uploaders.
632 * Add myself to Uploaders.
633 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
635 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
636 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
637 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
639 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
641 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
644 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
651 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
658 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
659 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
661 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
663 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
664 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
668 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
669 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
673 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
674 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
676 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
678 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
679 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
681 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
683 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
684 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
685 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
688 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
689 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
693 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
694 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
697 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
699 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
700 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
701 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
702 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
703 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
704 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
705 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
706 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
707 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
708 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
709 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
710 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
711 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
712 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
713 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
714 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
715 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
716 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
717 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
718 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
719 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
720 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
721 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
722 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
723 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
724 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
725 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
726 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
727 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
728 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
730 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
731 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
732 links was completed long ago.
733 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
735 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
737 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
740 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
742 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
744 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
747 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
748 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
749 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
750 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
751 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
752 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
753 Millan (Closes: #209008).
754 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
755 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
757 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
759 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
761 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
762 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
763 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
764 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
765 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
766 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
767 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
769 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
770 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
771 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
772 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
774 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
775 Küster (Closes: #403391).
776 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
777 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
778 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
779 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
780 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
781 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
785 Closes: #186700, #458910
786 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
787 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
791 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
792 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
793 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
794 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
795 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
796 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
797 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
799 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
800 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
802 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
803 * Add an md5sums control file.
804 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
805 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
806 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
807 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
808 currently part of policy.
809 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
810 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
811 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
814 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
816 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
819 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
820 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
821 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
822 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
823 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
824 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
825 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
826 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
827 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
829 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
830 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
831 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
832 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
833 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
835 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
837 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
838 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
839 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
841 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
842 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
843 list?" (Closes: #412634).
844 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
845 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
846 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
847 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
848 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
849 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
850 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
851 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
852 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
853 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
854 debconf specification.
855 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
856 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
858 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
860 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
863 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
865 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
866 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
868 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
870 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
871 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
872 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
873 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
874 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
876 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
877 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
878 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
879 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
880 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
881 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
882 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
883 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
884 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
885 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
886 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
887 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
888 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
890 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
891 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
895 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
896 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
897 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
898 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
899 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
900 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
901 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
902 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
904 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
906 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
909 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
910 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
912 Polo (Closes: #372497).
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
914 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
917 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
918 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
919 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
921 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
923 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
925 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
927 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
928 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
929 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
930 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
931 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
932 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
934 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
936 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
939 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
940 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
941 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
944 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
946 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
948 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
951 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
952 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
953 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
954 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
955 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
956 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
957 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
958 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
959 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
961 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
962 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
964 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
965 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
966 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
968 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
970 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
971 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
974 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
976 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
979 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
980 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
981 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
982 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
983 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
984 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
985 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
986 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
987 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
988 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
989 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
990 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
991 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
992 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
993 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
994 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
995 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
996 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
997 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
999 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1000 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1001 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1002 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1003 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1004 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1005 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1007 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1008 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1009 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1010 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1011 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1012 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1013 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1014 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1015 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1016 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1017 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1018 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1019 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1020 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1021 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1022 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1025 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1027 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1028 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1029 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1030 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1031 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1032 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1033 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1034 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1035 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1036 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1037 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1039 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1041 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1045 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1047 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1049 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1050 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1051 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1052 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1053 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1054 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1055 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1058 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1059 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1060 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1061 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1062 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1064 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1066 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1068 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1070 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1072 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1073 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1074 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1076 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1079 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1081 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1084 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1085 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1086 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1088 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1089 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1090 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1091 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1093 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1095 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1099 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1100 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1101 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1102 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1104 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1105 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1106 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1107 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1110 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1111 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1114 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1115 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1117 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1118 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1119 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1121 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1122 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1123 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1124 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1127 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1128 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1129 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1131 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1132 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1133 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1136 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1137 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1138 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1140 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1141 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1142 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1143 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1144 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1145 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1146 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1147 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1148 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1149 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1150 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1151 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1153 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1155 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1159 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1160 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1161 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1162 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1163 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1164 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1165 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1166 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1168 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1169 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1170 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1171 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1172 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1173 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1174 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1175 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1176 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1177 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1178 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1179 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1181 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1182 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1183 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1186 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1187 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1188 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1191 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1192 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1193 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1195 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1196 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1197 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1198 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1199 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1200 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1202 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1203 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1205 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1206 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1207 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1208 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1209 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1210 Closes: #185943, #237049
1212 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1214 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1220 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1221 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1222 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1223 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1224 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1225 running. closes: Bug#187250
1226 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1227 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1228 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1229 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1230 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1231 user closes: Bug#176506
1233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1235 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1239 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1240 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1241 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1242 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1243 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1244 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1245 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1246 deb-building toolchain.
1247 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1248 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1249 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1250 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1251 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1252 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1253 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1254 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1255 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1256 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1257 sections about changelog files.
1259 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1260 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1261 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1262 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1263 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1264 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1266 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1267 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1268 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1269 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1270 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1271 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1272 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1273 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1274 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1275 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1276 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1277 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1278 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1279 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1280 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1281 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1282 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1283 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1284 for the restructuring
1286 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1288 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1293 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1294 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1295 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1296 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1297 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1298 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1300 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1301 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1302 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1303 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1304 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1305 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1306 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1308 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1309 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1310 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1311 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1313 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1315 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1319 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1320 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1321 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1322 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1323 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1325 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1326 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1327 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1328 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1330 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1331 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1332 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1333 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1334 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1335 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1336 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1337 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1338 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1339 offtopic stuff, too.
1340 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1341 script should start it, closes: #60979
1342 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1343 "should", closes: #170019
1344 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1345 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1346 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1347 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1348 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1349 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1350 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1351 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1354 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1356 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1360 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1361 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1362 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1363 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1364 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1365 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1366 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1367 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1369 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1370 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1371 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1372 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1373 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1374 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1375 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1376 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1377 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1379 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1380 file, closes: Bug#65764
1382 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1384 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1387 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1388 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1389 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1390 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1391 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1392 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1393 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1394 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1395 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1396 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1397 details. closes: Bug#133030
1398 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1399 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1400 parts of Bug#161455.
1402 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1404 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1407 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1408 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1409 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1410 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1411 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1412 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1413 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1414 not. closes: Bug#139820
1415 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1416 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1417 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1418 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1419 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1420 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1421 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1422 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1423 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1424 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1426 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1428 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1429 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1430 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1431 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1432 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1433 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1434 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1435 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1436 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1437 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1438 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1439 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1440 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1441 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1442 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1443 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1444 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1445 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1446 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1447 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1449 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1450 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1451 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1452 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1453 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1454 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1455 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1457 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1458 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1459 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1460 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1461 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1462 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1463 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1464 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1465 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1467 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1469 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1472 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1473 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1474 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1475 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1476 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1477 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1478 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1479 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1480 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1481 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1482 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1483 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1484 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1485 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1486 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1487 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1488 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1489 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1490 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1491 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1492 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1493 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1495 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1497 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1500 medium, high, emergency.
1501 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1502 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1503 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1504 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1505 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1508 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1509 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1510 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1512 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1513 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1514 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1515 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1516 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1517 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1518 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1521 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1523 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1526 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1527 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1528 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1530 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1531 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1532 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1533 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1534 debian/rules to do this
1535 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1536 patches are incorporated upstream
1537 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1538 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1539 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1540 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1541 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1542 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1544 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1545 system closes: Bug#91249
1546 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1547 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1548 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1549 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1550 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1551 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1552 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1553 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1554 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1555 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1556 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1557 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1558 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1560 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1562 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1565 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1566 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1567 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1569 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1570 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1571 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1573 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1578 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1581 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1582 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1583 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1584 package for the time being
1585 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1586 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1587 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1588 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1589 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1590 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1591 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1592 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1593 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1594 Build-Depends arch syntax
1595 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1597 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1598 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1600 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1601 from policy maintenance duties.
1602 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1603 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1607 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1611 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1613 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1616 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1617 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1618 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1619 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1620 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1621 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1622 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1623 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1624 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1625 minor version number for this
1626 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1627 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1628 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1629 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1630 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1631 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1632 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1633 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1634 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1636 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1638 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1641 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1642 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1643 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1644 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1646 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1648 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1649 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1650 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1651 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1652 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1653 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1654 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1655 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1656 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1657 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1658 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1659 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1660 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1661 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1662 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1663 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1666 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1668 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1671 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1673 * Document the Enhances relationship
1674 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1675 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1676 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1677 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1678 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1679 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1681 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1683 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1684 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1685 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1686 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1688 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1689 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1690 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1691 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1692 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1694 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1696 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1699 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1700 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1702 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1703 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1704 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1705 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1706 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1707 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1708 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1709 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1710 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1712 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1714 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1716 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1719 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1720 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1721 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1722 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1723 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1724 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1725 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1726 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1727 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1728 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1729 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1730 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1731 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1732 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1733 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1734 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1735 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1736 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1737 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1738 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1739 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1741 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1742 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1744 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1746 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1749 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1750 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1751 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1752 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1753 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1754 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1755 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1756 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1757 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1758 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1759 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1760 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1761 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1762 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1763 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1764 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1765 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1766 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1767 list closes: Bug#53756
1768 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1769 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1770 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1771 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1772 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1773 policy closes: Bug#53760
1774 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1775 policy closes: Bug#53761
1776 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1777 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1778 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1779 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1780 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1781 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1782 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1783 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1784 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1785 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1786 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1788 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1789 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1790 to install with older fileutils.
1791 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1792 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1793 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1794 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1796 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1797 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1799 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1801 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1804 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1806 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1808 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1811 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1813 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1816 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1819 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1821 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1823 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1825 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1828 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1830 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1832 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1835 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1836 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1837 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1838 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1839 directoried (closes: #41547)
1840 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1841 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1842 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1843 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1844 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1845 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1846 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1847 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1848 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1849 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1850 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1852 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1853 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1854 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1855 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1856 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1857 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1858 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1860 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1861 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1862 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1863 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1865 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1867 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1869 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1870 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1872 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1874 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1877 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1879 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1881 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1884 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1886 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1887 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1888 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1889 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1890 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1891 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1892 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1893 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1894 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1895 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1896 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1897 this closes: Bug#38612
1898 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1899 before. closes: Bug#40864
1901 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1903 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1906 officially uploaded.
1907 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1909 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1910 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1911 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1913 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1914 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1915 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1916 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1917 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1918 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1920 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1921 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1922 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1924 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1926 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1927 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1928 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1929 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1930 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1932 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1934 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1937 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1938 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1939 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1940 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1941 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1942 there). closes: Bug#34233
1943 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1944 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1945 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1946 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1947 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1949 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1951 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1954 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1955 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1956 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1959 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1960 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1961 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1962 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1963 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1966 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1967 number. closes: BUG#25911
1969 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1970 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1971 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1972 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1973 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1974 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1976 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1977 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1978 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1981 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1982 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1983 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1985 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1986 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1987 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1988 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1990 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1991 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1992 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1994 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1996 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1997 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1998 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1999 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2000 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2001 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2002 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2003 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2006 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2008 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2009 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2014 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2018 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2020 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2023 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2024 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2025 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2026 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2027 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2028 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2029 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2031 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2032 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2034 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2036 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2038 * non-maintainer release
2039 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2040 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2042 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2043 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2044 * no content changes
2045 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2047 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2049 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2053 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2055 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2059 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2060 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2061 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2063 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2064 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2066 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2067 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2068 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2069 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2071 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2072 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2073 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2074 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2075 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2076 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2077 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2079 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2080 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2081 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2084 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2085 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2086 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2088 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2089 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2090 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2092 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2093 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2095 * New version numbering scheme:
2097 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2098 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2099 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2102 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2103 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2104 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2105 differ between the manuals.
2107 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2108 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2109 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2110 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2112 * Packaging changes:
2114 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2115 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2117 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2119 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2121 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2125 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2126 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2127 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2129 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2130 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2133 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2134 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2135 file extension as the referenced file
2137 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2138 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2140 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2141 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2142 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2143 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2146 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2147 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2148 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2150 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2151 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2152 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2153 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2156 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2157 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2160 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2161 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2162 reasonable default configuration
2164 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2165 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2166 by all news servers and clients
2168 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2169 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2170 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2171 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2172 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2174 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2175 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2178 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2180 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2181 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2183 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2186 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2187 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2189 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2190 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2192 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2194 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2196 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2199 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2200 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2201 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2203 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2205 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2206 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2207 * Don't use debstd anymore
2209 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2211 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2214 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2215 contrib/non-free policy
2216 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2217 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2218 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2219 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2220 - new section about `Daemons'
2221 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2222 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2223 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2224 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2225 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2226 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2227 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2228 * SGML source code included in package
2229 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2231 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2233 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2236 - completely reworked structure
2237 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2238 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2239 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2240 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2241 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2242 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2243 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2244 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2245 - mention "orphaned packages"
2246 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2247 distributions' policy
2248 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2249 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2250 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2251 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2252 - added section about arch spec strings
2253 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2254 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2255 - added section about "menus"
2256 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2257 the new documentation policy soon
2258 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2259 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2261 - added section about editors and pagers
2262 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2263 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2264 - added section about device files
2265 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2266 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2267 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2269 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2270 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2271 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2272 - Added new section about obsolete names
2273 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2274 * Fixed package's description
2276 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2278 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2282 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2284 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2287 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2288 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2289 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2291 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2293 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2296 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2297 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2299 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2300 and upload it "byhand" too.
2302 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2304 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2308 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2309 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2310 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2311 functionality must not have the same name.
2312 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2313 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2314 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2315 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2316 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2317 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2318 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2320 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2321 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2322 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2323 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2324 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2325 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2326 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2327 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2330 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2332 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2334 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2336 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2337 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2338 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2339 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2340 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2343 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2345 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2347 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2349 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2350 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2351 description of deb file format.
2352 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2353 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2355 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2357 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2358 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2360 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2362 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2364 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2365 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2366 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2367 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2368 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2369 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2370 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2371 packages in section on Procedure
2372 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2373 a package maintainer
2374 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2375 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2376 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2378 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2379 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2380 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2381 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2382 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2383 on various shlib files
2384 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2385 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2386 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2388 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2390 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2392 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2393 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2394 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2396 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2397 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2398 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2399 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2400 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2402 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2404 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2406 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2408 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2410 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2411 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2412 compatibility go in contrib.
2414 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2415 instructions in policy manual.
2416 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2419 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2421 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2423 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2424 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2425 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2426 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2428 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2429 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2432 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2434 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2436 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2437 * More detail about changelog format names.
2439 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2440 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2444 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2446 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2448 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2450 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2452 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2454 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2456 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2458 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2459 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2460 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2462 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2464 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2466 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2468 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2470 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2474 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100