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 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
11 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
12 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
13 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
16 * Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8). Closes: #621479
17 Proposed by: Justin B Rye.
18 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 20:31:54 +0200
25 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
28 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
31 Closes: #459868, #581011
32 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
33 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
35 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
38 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
40 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
43 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
45 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
47 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
48 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
52 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
53 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
56 Closes: #501930, #593909
57 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
58 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
62 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
63 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
64 machine. (Closes: #591857)
65 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
66 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
67 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
68 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
69 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
70 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
71 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
72 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
73 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
74 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
76 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
77 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
78 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
79 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
80 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
81 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
82 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
83 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
84 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
85 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
86 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
87 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
88 than the version in oldstable.
89 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
90 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
91 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
92 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
93 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
94 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
95 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
96 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
97 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
98 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
99 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
100 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
101 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
102 package. (Closes: #609160)
104 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
106 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
115 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
120 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
134 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
135 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
139 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
140 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
144 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
145 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
147 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
149 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
150 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
152 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
154 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
155 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
160 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
161 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
166 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
167 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
171 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
172 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
176 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
177 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
181 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
187 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
191 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
196 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
198 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
199 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
200 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
201 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
202 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
203 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
204 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
205 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
206 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
208 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
209 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
210 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
211 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
212 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
213 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
215 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
217 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
223 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
226 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
227 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
228 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
229 and distribution license' (three times).
230 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
231 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
236 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
238 Proposed by Santiago Vila
239 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
246 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
247 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
252 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
256 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
258 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
259 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
263 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
264 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
267 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
269 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
270 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
273 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
275 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
276 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
279 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
281 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
282 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
283 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
292 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
293 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
297 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
302 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
303 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
304 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
308 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
309 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
310 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
313 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
314 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
319 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
320 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
324 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
325 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
326 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
327 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
328 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
329 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
330 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
331 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
332 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
333 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
334 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
335 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
336 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
337 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
338 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
339 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
340 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
341 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
342 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
343 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
344 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
345 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
346 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
347 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
348 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
349 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
350 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
351 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
352 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
353 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
354 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
355 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
357 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
359 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
361 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
365 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
367 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
368 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
372 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
375 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
376 Wording: Steve Langasek.
377 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
378 Seconded: Julien Cristau
379 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
382 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
383 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
384 Seconded: Russ Allbery
385 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
388 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
389 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery
392 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
393 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
394 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
395 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
396 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
397 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
398 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
399 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
402 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
403 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
404 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
405 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
406 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
407 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
408 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
410 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
411 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
412 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
413 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
414 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
415 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
416 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
419 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
420 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
421 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
422 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
423 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
425 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
428 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
432 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
433 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
436 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
438 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
441 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
445 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
446 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
450 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
456 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
459 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
460 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
468 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
474 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
478 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
483 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
488 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
489 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
493 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
494 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
495 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
496 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
497 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
498 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
499 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
500 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
501 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
502 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
503 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
504 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
505 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
506 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
507 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
509 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
510 Source field descriptions.
511 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
512 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
513 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
514 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
515 description says otherwise.
517 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
519 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
523 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
526 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
527 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
529 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
530 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
534 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
535 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
539 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
540 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
544 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
545 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
546 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
547 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
551 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
552 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
553 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
554 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
555 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
557 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
558 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
562 * Add myself to Uploaders.
565 * Add myself to Uploaders.
566 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
568 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
569 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
570 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
572 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
574 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
577 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
584 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
586 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
591 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
592 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
594 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
596 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
597 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
601 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
609 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
611 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
614 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
616 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
617 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
618 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
621 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
622 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
626 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
630 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
632 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
633 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
634 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
635 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
636 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
637 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
638 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
639 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
640 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
641 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
642 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
643 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
644 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
645 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
646 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
647 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
648 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
649 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
650 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
651 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
652 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
653 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
654 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
655 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
656 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
657 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
658 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
659 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
660 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
661 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
663 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
664 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
665 links was completed long ago.
666 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
668 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
670 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
673 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
675 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
677 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
680 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
681 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
682 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
683 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
684 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
685 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
686 Millan (Closes: #209008).
687 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
688 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
690 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
692 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
694 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
695 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
696 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
697 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
698 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
699 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
700 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
702 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
703 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
704 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
705 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
707 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
708 Küster (Closes: #403391).
709 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
710 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
711 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
712 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
713 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
718 Closes: #186700, #458910
719 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
720 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
723 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
724 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
725 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
726 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
727 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
728 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
729 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
730 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
732 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
733 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
735 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
736 * Add an md5sums control file.
737 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
738 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
739 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
740 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
741 currently part of policy.
742 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
743 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
744 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
747 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
749 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
752 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
753 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
754 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
755 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
756 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
757 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
758 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
759 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
760 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
762 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
763 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
764 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
765 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
766 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
768 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
770 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
771 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
772 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
774 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
775 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
776 list?" (Closes: #412634).
777 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
778 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
779 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
780 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
781 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
782 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
783 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
784 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
785 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
786 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
787 debconf specification.
788 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
789 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
791 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
793 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
796 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
798 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
799 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
803 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
804 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
805 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
806 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
807 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
809 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
810 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
811 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
812 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
813 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
814 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
815 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
816 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
817 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
818 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
819 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
820 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
821 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
823 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
829 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
830 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
831 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
832 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
833 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
834 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
835 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
837 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
839 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
842 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
843 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
844 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
845 Polo (Closes: #372497).
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
847 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
849 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
850 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
851 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
852 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
853 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
854 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
855 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
856 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
858 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
860 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
861 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
862 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
863 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
864 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
865 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
867 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
869 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
872 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
873 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
874 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
876 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
877 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
879 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
881 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
884 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
885 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
886 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
887 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
888 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
889 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
890 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
891 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
892 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
894 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
895 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
897 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
898 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
899 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
900 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
901 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
903 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
904 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
907 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
909 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
912 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
914 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
915 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
916 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
917 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
918 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
919 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
920 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
921 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
922 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
923 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
924 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
925 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
926 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
927 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
928 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
929 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
930 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
931 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
932 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
933 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
934 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
935 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
936 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
937 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
938 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
940 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
941 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
942 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
943 Hess (Closes: #362247).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
945 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
946 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
947 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
948 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
949 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
950 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
951 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
952 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
953 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
954 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
955 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
958 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
960 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
961 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
963 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
964 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
965 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
966 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
967 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
968 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
969 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
970 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
974 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
978 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
980 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
981 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
982 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
983 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
984 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
985 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
986 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
987 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
988 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
989 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
991 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
992 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
994 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
995 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
997 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
999 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1001 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1003 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1005 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1006 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1007 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1009 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1014 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1017 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1018 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1019 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1021 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1022 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1024 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1026 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1028 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1032 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1033 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1034 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1035 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1037 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1038 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1039 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1040 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1042 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1043 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1044 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1047 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1048 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1049 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1050 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1051 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1052 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1054 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1055 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1056 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1057 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1059 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1060 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1061 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1062 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1064 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1065 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1066 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1069 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1070 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1071 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1072 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1073 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1074 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1075 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1077 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1078 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1079 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1080 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1081 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1082 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1083 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1084 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1086 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1088 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1092 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1093 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1094 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1095 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1096 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1097 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1098 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1099 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1101 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1102 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1103 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1104 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1105 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1106 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1107 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1108 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1109 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1110 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1111 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1112 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1114 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1115 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1116 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1120 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1121 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1124 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1125 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1126 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1128 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1129 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1130 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1131 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1132 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1133 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1135 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1136 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1138 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1139 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1140 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1141 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1142 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1143 Closes: #185943, #237049
1145 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1147 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1153 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1154 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1155 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1156 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1157 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1158 running. closes: Bug#187250
1159 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1160 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1161 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1162 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1163 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1164 user closes: Bug#176506
1166 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1168 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1172 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1173 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1174 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1175 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1176 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1177 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1178 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1179 deb-building toolchain.
1180 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1181 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1182 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1183 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1184 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1185 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1186 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1187 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1188 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1189 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1190 sections about changelog files.
1192 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1193 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1194 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1195 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1196 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1197 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1199 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1200 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1201 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1202 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1203 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1204 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1205 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1206 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1207 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1208 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1209 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1210 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1211 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1212 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1213 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1214 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1215 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1216 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1217 for the restructuring
1219 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1221 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1226 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1227 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1228 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1229 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1230 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1231 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1233 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1234 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1235 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1236 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1237 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1238 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1239 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1241 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1242 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1243 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1244 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1246 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1248 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1252 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1253 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1254 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1255 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1256 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1258 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1259 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1260 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1261 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1263 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1264 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1265 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1266 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1267 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1268 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1269 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1270 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1271 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1272 offtopic stuff, too.
1273 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1274 script should start it, closes: #60979
1275 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1276 "should", closes: #170019
1277 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1278 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1279 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1280 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1281 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1282 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1283 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1284 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1287 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1289 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1293 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1294 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1295 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1296 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1297 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1298 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1299 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1300 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1302 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1303 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1304 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1305 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1306 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1307 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1308 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1309 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1310 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1312 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1313 file, closes: Bug#65764
1315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1317 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1320 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1321 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1322 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1323 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1324 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1325 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1326 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1327 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1328 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1329 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1330 details. closes: Bug#133030
1331 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1332 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1333 parts of Bug#161455.
1335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1337 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1340 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1341 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1342 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1343 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1344 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1345 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1346 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1347 not. closes: Bug#139820
1348 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1349 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1350 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1351 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1352 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1353 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1354 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1355 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1356 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1357 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1359 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1361 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1362 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1363 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1364 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1365 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1366 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1367 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1368 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1369 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1370 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1371 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1372 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1373 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1374 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1375 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1376 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1377 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1378 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1379 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1380 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1382 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1383 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1384 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1385 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1386 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1387 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1388 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1390 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1391 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1392 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1393 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1394 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1395 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1396 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1397 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1398 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1400 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1402 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1405 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1406 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1407 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1408 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1409 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1410 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1411 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1412 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1413 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1414 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1415 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1416 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1417 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1418 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1419 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1420 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1421 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1422 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1423 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1424 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1425 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1426 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1428 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1430 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1433 medium, high, emergency.
1434 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1435 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1436 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1437 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1438 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1441 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1442 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1443 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1445 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1446 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1447 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1448 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1449 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1450 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1451 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1454 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1456 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1459 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1460 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1461 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1463 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1464 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1465 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1466 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1467 debian/rules to do this
1468 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1469 patches are incorporated upstream
1470 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1471 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1472 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1473 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1474 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1475 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1477 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1478 system closes: Bug#91249
1479 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1480 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1481 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1482 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1483 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1484 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1485 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1486 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1487 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1488 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1489 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1490 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1491 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1493 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1495 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1498 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1499 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1500 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1502 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1503 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1504 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1506 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1509 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1511 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1514 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1515 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1516 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1517 package for the time being
1518 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1519 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1520 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1521 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1522 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1523 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1524 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1525 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1526 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1527 Build-Depends arch syntax
1528 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1530 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1531 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1533 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1534 from policy maintenance duties.
1535 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1536 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1538 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1540 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1544 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1546 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1549 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1550 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1551 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1552 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1553 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1554 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1555 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1556 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1557 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1558 minor version number for this
1559 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1560 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1561 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1562 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1563 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1564 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1565 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1566 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1567 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1569 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1571 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1574 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1575 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1576 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1577 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1579 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1581 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1582 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1583 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1584 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1585 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1586 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1587 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1588 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1589 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1590 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1591 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1592 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1593 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1594 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1595 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1596 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1601 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1604 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1606 * Document the Enhances relationship
1607 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1608 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1609 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1610 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1611 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1612 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1614 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1616 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1617 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1618 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1619 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1621 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1622 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1623 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1624 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1625 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1627 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1629 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1632 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1633 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1635 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1636 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1637 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1638 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1639 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1640 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1641 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1642 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1643 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1645 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1647 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1649 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1652 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1653 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1654 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1655 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1656 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1657 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1658 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1659 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1660 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1661 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1662 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1663 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1664 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1665 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1666 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1667 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1668 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1669 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1670 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1671 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1672 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1674 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1675 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1677 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1679 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1682 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1683 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1684 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1685 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1686 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1687 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1688 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1689 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1690 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1691 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1692 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1693 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1694 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1695 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1696 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1697 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1698 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1699 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1700 list closes: Bug#53756
1701 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1702 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1703 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1704 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1705 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1706 policy closes: Bug#53760
1707 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1708 policy closes: Bug#53761
1709 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1710 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1711 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1712 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1713 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1714 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1715 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1716 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1717 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1718 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1719 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1721 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1722 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1723 to install with older fileutils.
1724 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1725 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1726 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1727 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1729 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1730 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1732 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1734 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1737 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1739 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1741 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1744 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1746 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1749 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1752 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1754 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1756 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1758 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1761 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1763 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1765 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1768 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1769 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1770 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1771 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1772 directoried (closes: #41547)
1773 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1774 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1775 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1776 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1777 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1778 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1779 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1780 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1781 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1782 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1783 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1785 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1786 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1787 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1788 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1789 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1790 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1791 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1793 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1794 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1795 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1796 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1798 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1800 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1802 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1803 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1805 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1807 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1810 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1812 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1814 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1817 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1819 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1820 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1821 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1822 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1823 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1824 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1825 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1826 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1827 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1828 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1829 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1830 this closes: Bug#38612
1831 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1832 before. closes: Bug#40864
1834 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1836 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1839 officially uploaded.
1840 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1842 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1843 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1844 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1846 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1847 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1848 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1849 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1850 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1851 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1853 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1854 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1855 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1857 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1859 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1860 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1861 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1862 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1863 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1865 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1867 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1870 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1871 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1872 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1873 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1874 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1875 there). closes: Bug#34233
1876 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1877 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1878 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1879 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1880 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1882 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1884 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1887 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1888 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1889 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1892 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1893 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1894 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1895 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1896 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1899 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1900 number. closes: BUG#25911
1902 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1903 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1904 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1905 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1906 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1907 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1909 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1910 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1911 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1914 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1915 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1916 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1918 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1919 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1920 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1921 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1923 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1924 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1925 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1927 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1929 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1930 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1931 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1932 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1933 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1934 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1935 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1936 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1939 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1941 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1942 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1945 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1947 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1951 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1953 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1956 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1957 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1958 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1959 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1960 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1961 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1962 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1964 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1965 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1967 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1969 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1971 * non-maintainer release
1972 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1973 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1975 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1976 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1977 * no content changes
1978 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1980 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1982 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1986 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1988 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1992 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1993 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1994 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1996 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1997 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1999 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2000 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2001 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2002 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2004 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2005 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2006 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2007 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2008 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2009 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2010 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2012 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2013 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2014 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2017 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2018 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2019 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2021 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2022 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2023 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2025 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2026 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2028 * New version numbering scheme:
2030 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2031 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2032 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2035 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2036 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2037 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2038 differ between the manuals.
2040 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2041 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2042 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2043 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2045 * Packaging changes:
2047 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2048 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2050 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2052 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2054 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2058 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2059 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2060 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2062 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2063 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2066 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2067 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2068 file extension as the referenced file
2070 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2071 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2073 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2074 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2075 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2076 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2079 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2080 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2081 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2083 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2084 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2085 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2086 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2089 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2090 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2093 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2094 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2095 reasonable default configuration
2097 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2098 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2099 by all news servers and clients
2101 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2102 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2103 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2104 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2105 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2107 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2108 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2111 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2113 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2114 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2116 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2119 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2120 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2122 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2123 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2125 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2127 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2129 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2132 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2133 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2134 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2136 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2138 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2139 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2140 * Don't use debstd anymore
2142 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2144 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2147 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2148 contrib/non-free policy
2149 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2150 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2151 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2152 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2153 - new section about `Daemons'
2154 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2155 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2156 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2157 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2158 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2159 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2160 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2161 * SGML source code included in package
2162 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2164 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2166 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2169 - completely reworked structure
2170 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2171 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2172 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2173 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2174 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2175 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2176 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2177 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2178 - mention "orphaned packages"
2179 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2180 distributions' policy
2181 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2182 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2183 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2184 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2185 - added section about arch spec strings
2186 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2187 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2188 - added section about "menus"
2189 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2190 the new documentation policy soon
2191 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2192 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2194 - added section about editors and pagers
2195 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2196 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2197 - added section about device files
2198 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2199 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2200 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2202 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2203 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2204 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2205 - Added new section about obsolete names
2206 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2207 * Fixed package's description
2209 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2211 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2215 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2217 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2220 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2221 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2222 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2224 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2226 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2229 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2230 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2232 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2233 and upload it "byhand" too.
2235 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2237 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2241 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2242 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2243 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2244 functionality must not have the same name.
2245 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2246 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2247 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2248 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2249 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2250 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2251 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2253 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2254 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2255 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2256 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2257 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2258 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2259 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2260 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2263 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2265 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2267 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2269 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2270 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2271 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2272 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2273 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2276 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2278 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2280 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2282 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2283 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2284 description of deb file format.
2285 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2286 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2288 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2290 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2291 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2293 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2295 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2297 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2298 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2299 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2300 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2301 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2302 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2303 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2304 packages in section on Procedure
2305 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2306 a package maintainer
2307 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2308 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2309 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2311 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2312 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2313 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2314 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2315 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2316 on various shlib files
2317 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2318 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2319 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2321 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2323 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2325 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2326 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2327 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2329 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2330 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2331 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2332 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2333 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2335 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2337 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2339 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2341 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2343 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2344 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2345 compatibility go in contrib.
2347 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2348 instructions in policy manual.
2349 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2352 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2354 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2356 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2357 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2358 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2359 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2361 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2362 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2365 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2367 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2369 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2370 * More detail about changelog format names.
2372 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2373 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2377 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2379 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2381 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2383 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2385 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2387 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2389 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2391 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2392 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2393 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2395 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2397 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2399 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2401 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2403 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2407 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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