1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
61 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
66 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
67 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
73 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
74 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
75 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
76 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
77 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
78 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
79 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
80 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
81 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
83 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
84 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
86 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
88 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
94 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
97 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
98 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
99 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
100 and distribution license' (three times).
101 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
102 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
107 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
109 Proposed by Santiago Vila
110 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
117 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
118 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
122 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
123 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
124 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
127 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
134 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
135 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
138 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
141 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
144 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
146 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
147 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
150 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
153 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
154 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
157 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
168 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
173 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
179 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
180 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
181 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
184 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
185 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
190 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
191 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
195 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
196 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
197 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
198 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
199 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
200 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
201 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
202 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
203 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
204 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
205 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
206 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
207 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
208 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
209 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
210 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
211 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
212 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
213 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
214 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
215 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
216 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
217 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
218 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
219 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
220 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
221 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
222 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
223 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
224 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
225 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
226 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
228 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
230 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
232 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
236 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
238 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
239 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
243 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
246 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
247 Wording: Steve Langasek.
248 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
249 Seconded: Julien Cristau
250 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
253 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
254 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
255 Seconded: Russ Allbery
256 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
259 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
260 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
261 Seconded: Russ Allbery
263 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
264 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
265 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
266 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
267 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
268 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
269 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
270 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
273 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
274 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
275 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
276 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
277 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
278 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
279 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
281 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
282 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
283 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
284 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
285 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
286 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
287 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
290 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
291 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
292 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
293 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
294 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
296 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
299 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
303 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
304 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
307 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
309 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
317 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
321 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
327 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
330 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
331 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
333 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
334 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
344 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
345 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
349 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
359 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
360 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
364 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
365 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
366 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
367 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
368 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
369 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
370 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
371 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
372 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
373 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
374 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
375 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
376 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
377 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
378 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
380 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
381 Source field descriptions.
382 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
383 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
384 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
385 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
386 description says otherwise.
388 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
390 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
394 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
397 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
398 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
400 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
401 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
405 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
406 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
410 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
411 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
415 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
416 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
417 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
418 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
422 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
423 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
424 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
425 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
426 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
428 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
429 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
433 * Add myself to Uploaders.
436 * Add myself to Uploaders.
437 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
439 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
440 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
441 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
443 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
445 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
448 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
455 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
457 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
462 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
465 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
467 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
480 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
482 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
483 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
485 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
487 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
488 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
489 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
492 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
493 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
497 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
498 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
501 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
503 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
504 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
505 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
506 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
507 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
508 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
509 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
510 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
511 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
512 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
513 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
514 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
515 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
516 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
517 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
518 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
519 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
520 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
521 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
522 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
523 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
524 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
525 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
526 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
527 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
528 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
529 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
530 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
531 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
532 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
534 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
535 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
536 links was completed long ago.
537 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
539 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
541 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
544 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
546 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
548 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
551 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
552 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
553 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
554 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
555 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
556 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
557 Millan (Closes: #209008).
558 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
559 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
561 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
563 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
565 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
566 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
567 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
568 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
569 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
570 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
571 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
573 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
574 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
575 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
576 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
578 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
579 Küster (Closes: #403391).
580 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
581 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
582 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
583 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
584 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
589 Closes: #186700, #458910
590 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
591 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
595 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
596 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
597 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
598 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
599 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
600 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
603 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
604 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
606 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
607 * Add an md5sums control file.
608 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
609 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
610 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
611 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
612 currently part of policy.
613 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
614 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
615 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
618 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
620 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
623 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
624 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
625 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
626 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
627 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
628 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
629 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
630 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
631 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
632 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
633 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
634 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
635 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
636 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
637 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
639 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
641 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
642 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
643 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
645 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
646 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
647 list?" (Closes: #412634).
648 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
649 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
650 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
651 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
652 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
653 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
654 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
655 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
656 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
657 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
658 debconf specification.
659 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
660 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
662 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
664 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
667 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
669 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
670 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
672 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
674 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
675 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
676 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
677 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
678 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
680 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
681 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
682 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
683 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
684 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
685 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
686 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
687 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
688 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
689 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
690 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
691 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
692 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
693 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
694 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
695 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
697 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
699 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
700 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
701 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
702 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
703 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
704 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
705 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
706 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
708 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
710 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
713 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
714 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
715 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
716 Polo (Closes: #372497).
717 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
718 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
720 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
721 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
722 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
723 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
724 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
725 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
726 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
727 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
728 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
729 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
731 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
732 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
733 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
734 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
735 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
736 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
740 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
743 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
744 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
745 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
748 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
750 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
752 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
755 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
756 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
757 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
758 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
759 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
760 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
761 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
762 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
763 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
765 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
766 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
767 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
768 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
769 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
770 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
771 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
772 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
774 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
775 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
778 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
780 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
783 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
784 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
785 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
786 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
787 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
788 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
789 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
790 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
791 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
792 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
793 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
794 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
795 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
796 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
797 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
798 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
799 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
800 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
801 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
803 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
804 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
805 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
806 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
807 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
808 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
809 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
811 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
812 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
813 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
814 Hess (Closes: #362247).
815 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
816 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
817 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
818 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
819 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
820 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
821 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
822 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
823 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
824 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
825 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
826 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
829 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
832 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
834 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
835 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
836 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
837 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
838 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
839 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
840 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
841 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
843 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
845 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
849 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
850 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
851 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
853 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
854 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
855 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
856 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
857 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
858 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
859 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
863 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
865 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
866 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
868 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
870 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
872 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
873 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
874 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
876 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
877 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
878 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
880 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
885 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
888 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
889 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
890 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
892 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
893 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
895 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
897 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
899 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
903 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
904 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
905 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
906 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
907 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
908 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
909 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
910 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
911 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
913 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
914 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
915 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
918 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
919 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
921 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
922 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
923 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
925 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
926 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
927 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
928 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
931 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
932 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
933 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
934 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
935 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
936 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
937 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
940 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
941 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
942 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
944 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
945 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
946 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
948 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
949 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
950 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
951 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
952 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
953 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
954 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
955 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
957 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
959 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
962 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
963 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
964 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
965 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
966 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
967 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
968 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
969 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
970 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
972 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
973 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
974 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
975 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
976 this section. closes: Bug#248618
977 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
978 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
979 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
980 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
981 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
982 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
983 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
984 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
985 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
986 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
987 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
991 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
992 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
995 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
996 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
997 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
999 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1000 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1001 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1002 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1003 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1004 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1006 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1007 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1009 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1010 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1011 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1012 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1013 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1014 Closes: #185943, #237049
1016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1018 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1024 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1025 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1026 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1027 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1028 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1029 running. closes: Bug#187250
1030 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1031 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1032 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1033 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1034 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1035 user closes: Bug#176506
1037 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1039 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1043 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1044 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1045 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1046 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1047 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1048 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1049 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1050 deb-building toolchain.
1051 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1052 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1053 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1054 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1055 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1056 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1057 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1058 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1059 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1060 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1061 sections about changelog files.
1063 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1064 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1065 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1066 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1067 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1068 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1070 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1071 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1072 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1073 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1074 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1075 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1076 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1077 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1078 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1079 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1080 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1081 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1082 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1083 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1084 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1085 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1086 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1087 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1088 for the restructuring
1090 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1092 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1097 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1098 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1099 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1100 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1101 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1102 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1104 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1105 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1106 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1107 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1108 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1109 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1110 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1112 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1113 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1114 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1115 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1117 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1119 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1123 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1124 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1125 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1126 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1127 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1129 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1130 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1131 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1132 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1134 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1135 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1136 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1137 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1138 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1139 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1140 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1141 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1142 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1143 offtopic stuff, too.
1144 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1145 script should start it, closes: #60979
1146 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1147 "should", closes: #170019
1148 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1149 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1150 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1151 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1152 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1153 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1154 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1155 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1158 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1160 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1164 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1165 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1166 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1167 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1168 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1169 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1170 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1171 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1173 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1174 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1175 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1176 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1177 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1178 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1179 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1180 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1181 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1183 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1184 file, closes: Bug#65764
1186 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1188 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1191 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1192 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1193 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1194 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1195 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1196 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1197 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1198 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1199 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1200 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1201 details. closes: Bug#133030
1202 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1203 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1204 parts of Bug#161455.
1206 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1208 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1211 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1212 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1213 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1214 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1215 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1216 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1217 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1218 not. closes: Bug#139820
1219 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1220 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1221 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1222 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1223 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1224 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1225 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1226 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1227 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1228 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1230 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1232 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1233 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1234 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1235 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1236 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1237 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1238 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1239 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1240 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1241 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1242 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1243 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1244 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1245 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1246 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1247 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1248 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1249 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1250 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1251 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1253 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1254 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1255 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1256 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1257 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1258 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1259 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1261 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1262 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1263 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1264 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1265 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1266 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1267 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1268 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1269 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1271 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1273 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1276 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1277 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1278 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1279 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1280 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1281 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1282 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1283 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1284 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1285 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1286 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1287 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1288 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1289 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1290 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1291 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1292 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1293 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1294 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1295 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1296 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1297 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1299 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1301 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1304 medium, high, emergency.
1305 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1306 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1307 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1308 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1309 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1312 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1313 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1314 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1316 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1317 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1318 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1319 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1320 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1321 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1322 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1325 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1327 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1330 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1331 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1332 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1334 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1335 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1336 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1337 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1338 debian/rules to do this
1339 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1340 patches are incorporated upstream
1341 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1342 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1343 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1344 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1345 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1346 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1348 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1349 system closes: Bug#91249
1350 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1351 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1352 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1353 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1354 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1355 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1356 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1357 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1358 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1359 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1360 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1361 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1362 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1364 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1366 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1369 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1370 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1371 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1373 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1374 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1375 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1377 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1380 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1382 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1385 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1386 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1387 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1388 package for the time being
1389 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1390 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1391 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1392 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1393 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1394 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1395 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1396 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1397 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1398 Build-Depends arch syntax
1399 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1401 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1402 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1404 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1405 from policy maintenance duties.
1406 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1407 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1409 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1411 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1415 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1417 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1420 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1421 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1422 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1423 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1424 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1425 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1426 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1427 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1428 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1429 minor version number for this
1430 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1431 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1432 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1433 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1434 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1435 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1436 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1437 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1438 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1440 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1442 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1445 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1446 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1447 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1448 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1450 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1452 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1453 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1454 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1455 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1456 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1457 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1458 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1459 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1460 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1461 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1462 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1463 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1464 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1465 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1466 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1467 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1472 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1475 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1477 * Document the Enhances relationship
1478 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1479 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1480 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1481 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1482 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1483 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1485 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1487 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1488 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1489 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1490 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1492 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1493 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1494 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1495 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1496 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1498 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1500 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1503 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1504 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1506 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1507 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1508 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1509 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1510 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1511 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1512 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1513 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1514 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1516 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1518 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1520 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1523 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1524 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1525 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1526 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1527 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1528 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1529 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1530 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1531 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1532 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1533 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1534 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1535 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1536 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1537 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1538 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1539 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1540 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1541 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1542 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1543 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1545 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1546 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1550 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1553 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1554 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1555 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1556 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1557 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1558 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1559 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1560 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1561 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1562 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1563 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1564 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1565 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1566 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1567 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1568 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1569 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1570 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1571 list closes: Bug#53756
1572 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1573 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1574 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1575 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1576 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1577 policy closes: Bug#53760
1578 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1579 policy closes: Bug#53761
1580 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1581 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1582 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1583 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1584 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1585 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1586 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1587 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1588 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1589 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1590 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1592 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1593 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1594 to install with older fileutils.
1595 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1596 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1597 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1598 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1600 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1601 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1603 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1605 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1608 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1610 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1612 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1615 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1617 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1620 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1623 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1625 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1627 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1629 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1632 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1634 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1636 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1639 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1640 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1641 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1642 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1643 directoried (closes: #41547)
1644 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1645 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1646 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1647 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1648 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1649 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1650 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1651 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1652 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1653 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1654 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1656 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1657 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1658 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1659 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1660 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1661 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1662 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1664 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1665 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1666 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1667 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1669 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1671 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1673 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1674 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1676 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1678 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1681 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1683 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1685 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1688 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1690 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1691 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1692 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1693 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1694 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1695 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1696 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1697 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1698 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1699 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1700 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1701 this closes: Bug#38612
1702 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1703 before. closes: Bug#40864
1705 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1707 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1710 officially uploaded.
1711 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1713 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1714 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1715 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1717 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1718 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1719 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1720 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1721 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1722 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1724 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1725 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1726 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1728 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1730 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1731 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1732 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1733 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1734 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1736 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1738 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1741 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1742 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1743 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1744 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1745 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1746 there). closes: Bug#34233
1747 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1748 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1749 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1750 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1751 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1753 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1755 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1758 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1759 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1760 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1763 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1764 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1765 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1766 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1767 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1770 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1771 number. closes: BUG#25911
1773 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1774 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1775 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1776 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1777 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1778 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1780 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1781 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1782 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1785 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1786 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1787 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1789 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1790 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1791 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1792 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1794 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1795 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1796 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1798 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1800 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1801 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1802 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1803 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1804 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1805 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1806 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1807 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1810 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1812 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1813 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1818 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1822 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1824 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1827 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1828 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1829 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1830 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1831 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1832 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1833 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1835 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1836 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1838 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1840 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1842 * non-maintainer release
1843 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1844 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1846 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1847 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1848 * no content changes
1849 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1851 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1853 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1857 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1859 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1863 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1864 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1865 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1867 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1868 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1870 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1871 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1872 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1873 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1875 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1876 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1877 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1878 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1879 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1880 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1881 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1883 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1884 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1885 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1888 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1889 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1890 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1892 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1893 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1894 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1896 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1897 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1899 * New version numbering scheme:
1901 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1902 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1903 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1906 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1907 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1908 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1909 differ between the manuals.
1911 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1912 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1913 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1914 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1916 * Packaging changes:
1918 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1919 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1921 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1923 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1925 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1929 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1930 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1931 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1933 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1934 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1937 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1938 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1939 file extension as the referenced file
1941 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1942 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1944 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1945 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1946 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1947 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1950 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1951 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1952 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1954 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1955 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1956 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1957 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1960 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1961 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1964 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1965 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1966 reasonable default configuration
1968 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1969 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1970 by all news servers and clients
1972 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1973 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1974 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1975 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1976 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1978 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1979 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1982 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1984 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1985 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1987 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1990 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1991 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1993 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1994 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1996 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1998 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2000 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2003 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2004 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2005 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2007 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2009 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2010 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2011 * Don't use debstd anymore
2013 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2015 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2018 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2019 contrib/non-free policy
2020 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2021 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2022 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2023 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2024 - new section about `Daemons'
2025 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2026 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2027 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2028 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2029 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2030 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2031 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2032 * SGML source code included in package
2033 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2035 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2037 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2040 - completely reworked structure
2041 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2042 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2043 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2044 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2045 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2046 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2047 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2048 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2049 - mention "orphaned packages"
2050 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2051 distributions' policy
2052 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2053 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2054 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2055 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2056 - added section about arch spec strings
2057 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2058 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2059 - added section about "menus"
2060 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2061 the new documentation policy soon
2062 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2063 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2065 - added section about editors and pagers
2066 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2067 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2068 - added section about device files
2069 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2070 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2071 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2073 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2074 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2075 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2076 - Added new section about obsolete names
2077 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2078 * Fixed package's description
2080 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2082 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2086 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2088 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2091 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2092 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2093 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2095 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2097 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2100 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2101 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2103 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2104 and upload it "byhand" too.
2106 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2108 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2112 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2113 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2114 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2115 functionality must not have the same name.
2116 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2117 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2118 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2119 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2120 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2121 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2122 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2124 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2125 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2126 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2127 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2128 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2129 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2130 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2131 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2134 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2136 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2138 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2140 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2141 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2142 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2143 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2144 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2147 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2149 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2151 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2153 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2154 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2155 description of deb file format.
2156 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2157 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2159 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2161 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2162 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2164 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2166 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2168 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2169 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2170 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2171 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2172 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2173 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2174 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2175 packages in section on Procedure
2176 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2177 a package maintainer
2178 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2179 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2180 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2182 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2183 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2184 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2185 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2186 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2187 on various shlib files
2188 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2189 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2190 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2192 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2194 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2196 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2197 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2198 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2200 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2201 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2202 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2203 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2204 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2206 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2208 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2210 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2212 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2214 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2215 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2216 compatibility go in contrib.
2218 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2219 instructions in policy manual.
2220 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2223 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2225 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2227 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2228 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2229 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2230 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2232 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2233 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2236 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2238 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2240 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2241 * More detail about changelog format names.
2243 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2244 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2248 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2250 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2252 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2254 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2256 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2258 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2260 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2262 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2263 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2264 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2266 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2268 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2270 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2272 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2274 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2278 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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