1 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
4 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
7 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
8 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
10 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
11 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
12 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
13 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
16 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:45:46 -0700
18 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
21 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
26 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
28 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
30 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
31 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
35 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
36 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
38 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
40 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
41 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
45 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
46 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
50 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
51 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
53 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
58 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
61 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
62 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
65 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
66 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
70 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
71 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
74 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
76 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
77 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
78 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
79 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
80 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
81 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
82 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
83 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
84 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
85 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
86 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
87 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
88 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
89 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
90 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
91 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
92 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
93 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
94 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
95 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
96 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
97 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
98 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
99 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
100 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
101 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
102 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
103 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
104 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
105 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
107 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
108 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
109 links was completed long ago.
110 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
112 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
114 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
117 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
119 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
121 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
124 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
125 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
126 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
127 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
128 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
129 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
130 Millan (Closes: #209008).
131 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
132 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
134 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
136 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
138 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
139 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
140 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
141 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
142 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
143 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
144 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
146 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
147 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
148 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
149 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
151 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
152 Küster (Closes: #403391).
153 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
154 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
155 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
156 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
157 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
162 Closes: #186700, #458910
163 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
164 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
168 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
169 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
170 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
171 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
172 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
173 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
176 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
177 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
179 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
180 * Add an md5sums control file.
181 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
182 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
183 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
184 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
185 currently part of policy.
186 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
187 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
188 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
191 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
193 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
196 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
197 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
198 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
199 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
200 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
201 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
202 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
203 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
204 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
206 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
207 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
208 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
209 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
210 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
212 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
214 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
215 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
216 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
218 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
219 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
220 list?" (Closes: #412634).
221 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
222 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
223 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
224 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
225 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
226 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
227 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
228 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
229 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
230 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
231 debconf specification.
232 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
233 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
235 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
237 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
240 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
242 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
243 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
248 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
249 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
250 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
251 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
253 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
254 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
255 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
256 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
257 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
258 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
259 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
260 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
261 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
262 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
263 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
264 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
265 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
267 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
273 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
274 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
275 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
277 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
278 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
279 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
283 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
286 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
287 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
289 Polo (Closes: #372497).
290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
291 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
294 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
295 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
296 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
298 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
299 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
300 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
302 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
304 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
305 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
306 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
307 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
308 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
309 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
311 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
313 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
316 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
317 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
318 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
321 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
323 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
325 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
328 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
329 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
330 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
331 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
332 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
333 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
334 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
335 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
336 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
338 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
339 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
341 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
342 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
343 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
345 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
347 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
348 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
351 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
353 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
356 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
357 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
358 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
359 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
360 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
361 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
362 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
363 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
364 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
365 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
366 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
367 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
368 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
369 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
370 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
371 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
372 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
373 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
374 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
375 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
376 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
377 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
378 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
379 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
380 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
381 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
382 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
384 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
385 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
386 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
387 Hess (Closes: #362247).
388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
389 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
390 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
391 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
392 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
393 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
394 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
395 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
396 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
397 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
398 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
399 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
402 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
405 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
407 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
408 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
409 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
410 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
411 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
412 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
413 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
414 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
416 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
418 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
422 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
424 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
425 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
426 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
427 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
428 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
429 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
430 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
431 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
432 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
436 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
438 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
439 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
441 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
443 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
445 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
446 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
447 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
449 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
450 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
451 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
452 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
453 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
456 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
458 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
461 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
462 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
463 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
465 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
466 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
468 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
472 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
476 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
477 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
478 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
479 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
481 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
482 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
483 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
484 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
487 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
488 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
491 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
492 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
494 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
495 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
496 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
498 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
499 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
500 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
501 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
503 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
504 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
505 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
506 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
507 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
508 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
509 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
510 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
512 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
513 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
514 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
515 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
516 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
517 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
518 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
519 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
520 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
521 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
522 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
523 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
524 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
525 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
526 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
527 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
528 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
530 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
532 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
535 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
536 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
537 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
538 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
539 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
540 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
541 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
542 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
543 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
545 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
546 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
547 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
548 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
549 this section. closes: Bug#248618
550 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
551 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
552 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
553 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
554 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
555 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
556 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
557 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
558 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
559 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
560 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
561 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
563 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
564 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
565 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
568 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
569 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
570 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
572 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
573 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
574 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
575 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
576 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
577 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
579 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
580 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
582 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
583 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
584 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
585 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
586 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
587 Closes: #185943, #237049
589 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
591 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
597 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
598 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
599 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
600 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
601 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
602 running. closes: Bug#187250
603 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
604 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
605 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
606 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
607 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
608 user closes: Bug#176506
610 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
612 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
616 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
617 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
618 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
619 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
620 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
621 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
622 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
623 deb-building toolchain.
624 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
625 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
626 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
627 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
628 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
629 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
630 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
631 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
632 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
633 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
634 sections about changelog files.
636 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
637 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
638 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
639 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
640 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
641 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
643 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
644 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
645 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
646 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
647 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
648 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
649 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
650 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
651 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
652 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
653 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
654 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
655 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
656 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
657 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
658 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
659 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
660 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
661 for the restructuring
663 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
665 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
670 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
671 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
672 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
673 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
674 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
675 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
677 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
678 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
679 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
680 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
681 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
682 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
683 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
685 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
686 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
687 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
688 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
690 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
692 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
696 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
697 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
698 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
699 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
700 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
702 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
703 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
704 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
705 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
707 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
708 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
709 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
710 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
711 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
712 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
713 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
714 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
715 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
717 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
718 script should start it, closes: #60979
719 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
720 "should", closes: #170019
721 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
722 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
723 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
724 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
725 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
726 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
727 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
728 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
731 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
733 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
737 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
738 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
739 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
740 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
741 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
742 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
743 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
744 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
746 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
747 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
748 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
749 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
750 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
751 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
752 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
753 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
754 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
756 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
757 file, closes: Bug#65764
759 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
761 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
764 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
765 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
766 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
767 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
768 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
769 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
770 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
771 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
772 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
773 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
774 details. closes: Bug#133030
775 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
776 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
779 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
781 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
784 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
785 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
786 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
787 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
788 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
789 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
790 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
791 not. closes: Bug#139820
792 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
793 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
794 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
795 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
796 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
797 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
798 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
799 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
800 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
801 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
803 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
805 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
806 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
807 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
808 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
809 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
810 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
811 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
812 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
813 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
814 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
815 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
816 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
817 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
818 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
819 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
820 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
821 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
822 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
823 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
824 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
826 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
827 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
828 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
829 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
830 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
831 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
832 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
834 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
835 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
836 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
837 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
838 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
839 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
840 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
841 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
842 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
844 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
846 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
849 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
850 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
851 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
852 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
853 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
854 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
855 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
856 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
857 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
858 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
859 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
860 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
861 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
862 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
863 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
864 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
865 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
866 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
867 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
868 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
869 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
870 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
872 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
874 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
877 medium, high, emergency.
878 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
879 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
880 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
881 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
882 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
885 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
886 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
887 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
889 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
890 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
891 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
892 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
893 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
894 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
895 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
900 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
903 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
904 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
905 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
907 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
908 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
909 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
910 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
911 debian/rules to do this
912 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
913 patches are incorporated upstream
914 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
915 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
916 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
917 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
918 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
919 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
921 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
922 system closes: Bug#91249
923 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
924 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
925 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
926 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
927 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
928 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
929 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
930 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
931 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
932 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
933 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
934 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
935 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
937 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
939 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
941 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
942 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
943 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
944 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
946 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
947 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
948 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
950 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
953 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
955 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
958 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
959 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
960 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
961 package for the time being
962 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
963 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
964 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
965 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
966 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
967 * Rename all .text files as .txt
968 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
969 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
970 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
971 Build-Depends arch syntax
972 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
974 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
975 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
977 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
978 from policy maintenance duties.
979 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
980 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
982 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
984 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
988 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
990 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
993 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
994 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
995 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
996 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
997 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
998 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
999 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1000 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1001 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1002 minor version number for this
1003 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1004 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1005 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1006 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1007 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1008 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1009 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1010 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1011 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1013 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1015 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1018 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1019 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1020 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1021 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1023 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1025 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1026 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1027 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1028 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1029 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1030 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1031 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1032 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1033 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1034 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1035 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1036 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1037 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1038 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1039 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1040 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1043 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1045 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1048 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1050 * Document the Enhances relationship
1051 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1052 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1053 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1054 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1055 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1056 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1058 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1060 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1061 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1062 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1063 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1065 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1066 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1067 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1068 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1069 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1071 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1073 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1076 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1077 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1079 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1080 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1081 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1082 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1083 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1084 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1085 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1086 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1087 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1089 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1091 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1093 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1096 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1097 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1098 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1099 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1100 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1101 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1102 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1103 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1104 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1105 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1106 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1107 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1108 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1109 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1110 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1111 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1112 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1113 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1114 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1115 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1116 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1118 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1119 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1121 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1123 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1126 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1127 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1128 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1129 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1130 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1131 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1132 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1133 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1134 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1135 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1136 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1137 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1138 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1139 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1140 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1141 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1142 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1143 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1144 list closes: Bug#53756
1145 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1146 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1147 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1148 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1149 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1150 policy closes: Bug#53760
1151 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1152 policy closes: Bug#53761
1153 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1154 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1155 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1156 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1157 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1158 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1159 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1160 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1161 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1162 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1163 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1165 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1166 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1167 to install with older fileutils.
1168 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1169 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1170 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1171 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1173 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1174 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1176 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1178 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1181 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1183 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1185 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1188 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1190 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1193 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1196 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1198 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1200 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1202 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1205 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1207 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1209 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1212 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1213 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1214 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1215 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1216 directoried (closes: #41547)
1217 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1218 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1219 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1220 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1221 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1222 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1223 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1224 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1225 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1226 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1227 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1229 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1230 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1231 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1232 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1233 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1234 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1235 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1237 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1238 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1239 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1240 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1242 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1244 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1246 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1247 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1249 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1251 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1254 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1256 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1258 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1261 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1263 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1264 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1265 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1266 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1267 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1268 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1269 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1270 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1271 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1272 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1273 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1274 this closes: Bug#38612
1275 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1276 before. closes: Bug#40864
1278 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1280 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1283 officially uploaded.
1284 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1286 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1287 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1288 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1290 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1291 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1292 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1293 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1294 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1295 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1297 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1298 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1299 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1301 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1303 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1304 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1305 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1306 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1307 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1311 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1314 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1315 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1316 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1317 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1318 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1319 there). closes: Bug#34233
1320 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1321 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1322 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1323 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1324 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1326 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1328 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1331 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1332 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1333 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1336 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1337 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1338 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1339 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1340 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1343 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1344 number. closes: BUG#25911
1346 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1347 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1348 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1349 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1350 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1351 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1353 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1354 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1355 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1358 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1359 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1360 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1362 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1363 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1364 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1365 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1367 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1368 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1369 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1371 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1373 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1374 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1375 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1376 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1377 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1378 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1379 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1380 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1383 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1385 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1386 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1389 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1391 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1395 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1397 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1400 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1401 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1402 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1403 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1404 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1405 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1406 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1408 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1409 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1411 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1413 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1415 * non-maintainer release
1416 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1417 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1419 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1420 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1421 * no content changes
1422 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1424 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1426 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1430 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1432 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1436 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1437 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1438 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1440 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1441 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1443 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1444 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1445 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1446 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1448 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1449 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1450 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1451 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1452 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1453 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1454 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1456 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1457 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1458 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1461 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1462 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1463 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1465 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1466 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1467 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1469 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1470 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1472 * New version numbering scheme:
1474 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1475 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1476 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1479 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1480 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1481 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1482 differ between the manuals.
1484 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1485 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1486 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1487 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1489 * Packaging changes:
1491 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1492 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1494 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1496 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1498 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1502 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1503 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1504 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1506 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1507 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1510 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1511 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1512 file extension as the referenced file
1514 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1515 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1517 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1518 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1519 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1520 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1523 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1524 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1525 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1527 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1528 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1529 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1530 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1533 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1534 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1537 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1538 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1539 reasonable default configuration
1541 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1542 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1543 by all news servers and clients
1545 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1546 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1547 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1548 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1549 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1551 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1552 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1555 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1557 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1558 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1560 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1563 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1564 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1566 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1567 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1569 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1571 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1573 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1576 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1577 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1578 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1580 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1582 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1583 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1584 * Don't use debstd anymore
1586 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1588 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1591 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1592 contrib/non-free policy
1593 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1594 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1595 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1596 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1597 - new section about `Daemons'
1598 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1599 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1600 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1601 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1602 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1603 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1604 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1605 * SGML source code included in package
1606 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1608 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1610 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1613 - completely reworked structure
1614 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1615 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1616 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1617 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1618 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1619 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1620 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1621 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1622 - mention "orphaned packages"
1623 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1624 distributions' policy
1625 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1626 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1627 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1628 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1629 - added section about arch spec strings
1630 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1631 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1632 - added section about "menus"
1633 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1634 the new documentation policy soon
1635 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1636 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1638 - added section about editors and pagers
1639 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1640 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1641 - added section about device files
1642 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1643 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1644 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1646 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1647 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1648 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1649 - Added new section about obsolete names
1650 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1651 * Fixed package's description
1653 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1655 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1659 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1661 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1664 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1665 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1666 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1668 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1670 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1673 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1674 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1676 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1677 and upload it "byhand" too.
1679 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1681 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1685 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1686 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1687 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1688 functionality must not have the same name.
1689 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1690 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1691 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1692 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1693 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1694 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1695 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1697 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1698 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1699 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1700 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1701 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1702 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1703 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1704 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1707 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1709 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1711 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1713 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1714 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1715 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1716 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1717 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1720 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1722 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1724 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1726 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1727 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1728 description of deb file format.
1729 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1730 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1732 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1734 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1735 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1737 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1739 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1741 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1742 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1743 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1744 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1745 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1746 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1747 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1748 packages in section on Procedure
1749 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1750 a package maintainer
1751 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1752 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1753 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1755 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1756 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1757 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1758 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1759 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1760 on various shlib files
1761 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1762 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1763 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1765 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1767 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1769 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1770 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1771 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1773 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1774 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1775 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1776 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1777 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1779 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1781 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1783 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1785 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1787 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1788 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1789 compatibility go in contrib.
1791 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1792 instructions in policy manual.
1793 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1796 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1798 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1800 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1801 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1802 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1803 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1805 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1806 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1809 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1811 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1813 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1814 * More detail about changelog format names.
1816 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1817 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1821 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1823 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1825 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1827 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1829 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1831 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1833 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1835 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1836 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1837 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1839 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1841 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1843 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1845 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1847 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1851 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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