1 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
10 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
20 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
27 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:30:33 -0700
29 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
32 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
33 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
34 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
35 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
37 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
38 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
39 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
40 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
41 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
42 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
43 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
44 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
45 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
46 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
47 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
48 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
49 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
50 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
51 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
52 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
53 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
55 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
56 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
57 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
58 good to know which version one is looking at.
59 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
60 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
61 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
62 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
63 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
64 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
65 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
67 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
68 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
69 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
70 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
71 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
73 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
74 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
75 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
77 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
78 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
79 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
80 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
82 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
84 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
88 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
89 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
90 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
91 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
92 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
93 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
94 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
95 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
96 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
97 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
103 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
108 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
109 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
113 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
115 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
121 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
124 Closes: #620870, #532120
125 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
126 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
131 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
132 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
133 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
137 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
138 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
139 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
140 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
141 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
143 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
144 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
145 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
146 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
147 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
148 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
149 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
150 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
151 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
152 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
153 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
154 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
155 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
156 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
157 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
158 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
160 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
162 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
163 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
164 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
165 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
166 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
167 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
168 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
169 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
170 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
171 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
174 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
176 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
177 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
178 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
184 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
185 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
187 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
188 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
189 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
190 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
193 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
195 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
199 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
200 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
201 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
204 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
205 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
206 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
208 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
209 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
215 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
216 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
217 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
220 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
221 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
226 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
227 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
228 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
229 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
232 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
233 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
234 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
237 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
238 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
243 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
245 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 Closes: #459868, #581011
252 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
255 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
257 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
258 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
263 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
265 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
267 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
268 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
270 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
272 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
273 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
276 Closes: #501930, #593909
277 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
278 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
282 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
283 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
284 machine. (Closes: #591857)
285 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
286 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
287 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
288 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
289 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
290 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
291 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
292 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
293 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
294 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
296 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
297 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
298 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
299 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
300 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
301 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
302 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
303 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
304 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
305 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
306 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
307 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
308 than the version in oldstable.
309 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
310 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
311 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
312 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
313 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
314 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
315 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
316 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
317 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
318 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
319 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
320 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
321 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
322 package. (Closes: #609160)
324 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
326 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
329 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
344 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
349 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
360 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
364 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
365 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
367 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
372 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
374 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
380 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
381 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
386 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
387 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
391 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
392 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
396 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
397 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
401 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
402 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
407 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
411 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
416 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
418 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
419 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
420 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
421 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
422 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
423 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
424 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
425 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
426 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
428 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
429 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
430 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
431 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
432 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
433 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
435 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
437 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
443 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
446 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
447 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
448 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
449 and distribution license' (three times).
450 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
451 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
456 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
458 Proposed by Santiago Vila
459 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
471 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
472 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
476 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
483 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
487 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
489 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
490 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
493 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
499 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
501 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
503 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
506 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
507 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
512 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
513 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
517 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
522 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
523 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
524 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
528 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
529 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
530 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
533 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
534 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
539 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
540 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
544 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
545 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
546 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
547 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
548 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
549 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
550 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
551 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
552 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
553 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
554 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
555 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
556 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
557 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
558 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
559 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
560 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
561 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
562 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
563 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
564 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
565 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
566 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
567 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
568 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
569 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
570 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
571 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
572 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
573 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
574 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
575 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
577 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
579 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
581 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
585 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
587 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
588 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
592 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
595 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
596 Wording: Steve Langasek.
597 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
598 Seconded: Julien Cristau
599 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
602 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
603 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
604 Seconded: Russ Allbery
605 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
608 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
609 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
610 Seconded: Russ Allbery
612 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
613 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
614 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
615 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
616 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
617 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
618 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
619 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
622 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
623 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
624 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
625 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
626 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
627 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
628 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
630 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
631 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
632 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
633 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
634 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
635 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
636 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
639 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
640 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
641 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
642 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
643 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
645 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
648 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
652 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
653 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
656 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
658 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
661 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
665 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
666 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
670 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
671 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
675 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
676 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
679 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
680 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
682 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
683 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
685 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
688 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
689 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
693 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
694 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
698 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
699 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
703 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
708 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
709 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
713 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
714 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
715 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
716 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
717 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
718 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
719 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
720 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
721 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
722 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
723 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
724 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
725 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
726 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
727 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
729 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
730 Source field descriptions.
731 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
732 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
733 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
734 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
735 description says otherwise.
737 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
739 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
743 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
746 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
747 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
749 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
750 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
754 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
759 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
760 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
764 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
765 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
766 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
767 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
771 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
772 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
773 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
774 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
775 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
777 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
778 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
782 * Add myself to Uploaders.
785 * Add myself to Uploaders.
786 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
788 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
789 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
790 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
792 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
794 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
797 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
801 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
802 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
804 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
806 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
807 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
808 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
811 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
812 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
813 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
814 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
816 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
817 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
819 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
821 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
822 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
824 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
826 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
827 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
829 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
831 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
832 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
834 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
836 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
837 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
838 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
841 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
842 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
843 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
844 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
846 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
847 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
848 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
849 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
850 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
852 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
853 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
854 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
855 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
856 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
857 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
858 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
859 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
860 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
861 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
862 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
863 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
864 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
865 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
866 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
867 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
868 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
869 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
870 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
871 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
872 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
873 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
874 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
875 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
876 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
877 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
878 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
879 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
880 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
881 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
883 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
884 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
885 links was completed long ago.
886 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
888 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
890 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
893 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
895 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
897 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
900 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
901 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
902 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
903 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
904 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
905 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
906 Millan (Closes: #209008).
907 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
908 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
910 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
912 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
914 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
915 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
916 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
917 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
918 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
919 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
920 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
922 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
923 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
924 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
925 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
927 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
928 Küster (Closes: #403391).
929 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
930 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
931 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
932 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
933 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
934 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
937 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
938 Closes: #186700, #458910
939 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
940 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
943 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
944 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
945 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
946 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
947 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
948 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
949 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
950 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
952 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
953 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
955 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
956 * Add an md5sums control file.
957 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
958 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
959 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
960 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
961 currently part of policy.
962 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
963 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
964 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
967 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
969 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
972 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
973 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
974 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
975 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
976 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
977 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
978 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
979 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
980 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
981 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
982 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
983 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
984 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
985 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
986 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
988 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
990 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
991 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
992 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
994 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
995 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
996 list?" (Closes: #412634).
997 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
998 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
999 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1000 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1001 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1002 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1003 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1004 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1005 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1006 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1007 debconf specification.
1008 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1009 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1011 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1013 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1016 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1018 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1019 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1024 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1025 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1026 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1027 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1029 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1030 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1031 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1032 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1033 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1034 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1035 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1036 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1037 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1038 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1039 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1040 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1041 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1042 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1043 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1044 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1049 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1050 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1051 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1052 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1053 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1054 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1055 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1057 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1059 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1062 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1063 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1065 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1067 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1070 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1071 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1072 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1074 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1076 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1078 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1080 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1081 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1082 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1083 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1084 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1085 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1087 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1089 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1092 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1093 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1094 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1097 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1099 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1101 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1104 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1105 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1106 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1107 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1108 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1109 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1110 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1111 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1112 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1114 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1115 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1117 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1118 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1119 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1121 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1123 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1124 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1127 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1129 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1132 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1134 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1135 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1136 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1137 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1138 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1139 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1140 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1141 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1142 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1143 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1144 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1145 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1146 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1147 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1148 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1149 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1150 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1152 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1153 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1154 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1155 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1156 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1157 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1158 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1160 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1161 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1162 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1163 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1165 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1166 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1167 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1168 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1169 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1170 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1171 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1172 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1173 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1174 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1175 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1178 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1181 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1183 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1184 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1185 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1186 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1187 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1188 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1189 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1190 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1192 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1194 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1198 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1199 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1200 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1201 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1202 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1203 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1204 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1206 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1207 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1208 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1209 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1212 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1214 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1215 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1217 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1219 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1220 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1221 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1223 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1225 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1226 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1227 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1229 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1232 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1234 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1237 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1238 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1239 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1241 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1242 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1244 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1246 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1248 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1252 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1253 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1254 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1255 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1256 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1257 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1258 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1259 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1260 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1263 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1264 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1267 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1268 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1270 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1271 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1272 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1274 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1275 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1276 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1277 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1280 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1281 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1282 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1284 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1285 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1286 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1289 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1290 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1291 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1293 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1294 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1295 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1297 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1298 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1299 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1300 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1301 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1302 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1303 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1304 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1306 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1308 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1312 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1313 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1314 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1315 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1316 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1317 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1318 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1319 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1321 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1322 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1323 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1324 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1325 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1326 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1327 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1328 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1329 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1330 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1331 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1332 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1334 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1335 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1336 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1340 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1341 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1344 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1345 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1346 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1348 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1349 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1350 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1351 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1352 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1353 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1355 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1356 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1358 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1359 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1360 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1361 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1362 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1363 Closes: #185943, #237049
1365 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1367 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1373 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1374 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1375 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1376 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1377 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1378 running. closes: Bug#187250
1379 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1380 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1381 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1382 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1383 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1384 user closes: Bug#176506
1386 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1388 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1392 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1393 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1394 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1395 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1396 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1397 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1398 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1399 deb-building toolchain.
1400 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1401 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1402 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1403 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1404 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1405 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1406 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1407 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1408 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1409 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1410 sections about changelog files.
1412 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1413 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1414 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1415 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1416 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1417 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1419 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1420 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1421 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1422 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1423 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1424 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1425 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1426 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1427 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1428 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1429 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1430 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1431 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1432 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1433 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1434 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1435 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1436 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1437 for the restructuring
1439 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1441 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1446 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1447 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1448 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1449 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1450 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1451 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1453 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1454 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1455 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1456 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1457 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1458 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1459 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1461 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1462 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1463 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1464 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1466 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1468 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1472 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1473 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1474 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1475 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1476 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1478 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1479 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1480 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1481 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1483 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1484 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1485 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1486 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1487 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1488 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1489 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1490 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1491 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1492 offtopic stuff, too.
1493 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1494 script should start it, closes: #60979
1495 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1496 "should", closes: #170019
1497 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1498 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1499 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1500 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1501 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1502 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1503 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1504 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1507 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1509 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1513 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1514 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1515 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1516 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1517 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1518 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1519 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1520 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1522 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1523 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1524 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1525 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1526 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1527 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1528 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1529 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1530 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1532 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1533 file, closes: Bug#65764
1535 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1537 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1540 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1541 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1542 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1543 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1544 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1545 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1546 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1547 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1548 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1549 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1550 details. closes: Bug#133030
1551 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1552 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1553 parts of Bug#161455.
1555 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1557 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1560 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1561 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1562 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1563 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1564 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1565 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1566 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1567 not. closes: Bug#139820
1568 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1569 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1570 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1571 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1572 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1573 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1574 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1575 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1576 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1577 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1579 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1581 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1582 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1583 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1584 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1585 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1586 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1587 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1588 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1589 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1590 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1591 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1592 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1593 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1594 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1595 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1596 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1597 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1598 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1599 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1600 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1602 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1603 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1604 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1605 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1606 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1607 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1608 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1610 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1611 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1612 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1613 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1614 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1615 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1616 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1617 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1618 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1622 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1625 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1626 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1627 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1628 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1629 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1630 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1631 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1632 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1633 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1634 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1635 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1636 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1637 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1638 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1639 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1640 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1641 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1642 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1643 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1644 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1645 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1646 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1648 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1650 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1653 medium, high, emergency.
1654 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1655 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1656 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1657 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1658 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1661 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1662 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1663 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1665 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1666 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1667 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1668 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1669 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1670 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1671 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1674 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1676 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1679 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1680 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1681 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1683 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1684 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1685 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1686 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1687 debian/rules to do this
1688 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1689 patches are incorporated upstream
1690 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1691 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1692 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1693 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1694 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1695 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1697 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1698 system closes: Bug#91249
1699 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1700 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1701 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1702 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1703 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1704 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1705 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1706 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1707 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1708 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1709 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1710 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1711 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1713 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1715 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1718 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1719 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1720 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1722 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1723 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1724 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1726 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1729 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1731 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1734 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1735 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1736 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1737 package for the time being
1738 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1739 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1740 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1741 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1742 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1743 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1744 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1745 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1746 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1747 Build-Depends arch syntax
1748 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1750 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1751 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1753 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1754 from policy maintenance duties.
1755 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1756 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1758 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1760 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1764 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1766 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1769 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1770 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1771 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1772 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1773 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1774 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1775 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1776 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1777 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1778 minor version number for this
1779 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1780 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1781 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1782 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1783 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1784 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1785 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1786 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1787 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1789 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1791 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1794 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1795 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1796 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1797 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1799 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1801 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1802 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1803 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1804 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1805 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1806 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1807 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1808 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1809 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1810 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1811 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1812 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1813 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1814 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1815 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1816 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1819 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1821 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1824 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1826 * Document the Enhances relationship
1827 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1828 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1829 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1830 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1831 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1832 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1834 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1836 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1837 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1838 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1839 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1841 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1842 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1843 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1844 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1845 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1847 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1849 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1852 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1853 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1855 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1856 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1857 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1858 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1859 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1860 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1861 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1862 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1863 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1865 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1867 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1869 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1872 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1873 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1874 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1875 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1876 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1877 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1878 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1879 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1880 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1881 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1882 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1883 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1884 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1885 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1886 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1887 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1888 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1889 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1890 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1891 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1892 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1894 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1895 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1897 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1899 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1902 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1903 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1904 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1905 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1906 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1907 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1908 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1909 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1910 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1911 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1912 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1913 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1914 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1915 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1916 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1917 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1918 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1919 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1920 list closes: Bug#53756
1921 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1922 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1923 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1924 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1925 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1926 policy closes: Bug#53760
1927 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1928 policy closes: Bug#53761
1929 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1930 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1931 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1932 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1933 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1934 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1935 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1936 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1937 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1938 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1939 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1941 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1942 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1943 to install with older fileutils.
1944 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1945 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1946 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1947 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1949 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1950 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1952 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1954 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1957 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1959 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1961 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1964 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1966 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1969 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1972 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1974 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1976 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1978 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1981 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1983 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1985 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1988 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1989 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1990 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1991 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1992 directoried (closes: #41547)
1993 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1994 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1995 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1996 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1997 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1998 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1999 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2000 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2001 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2002 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2003 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2005 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2006 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2007 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2008 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2009 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2010 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2011 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2013 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2014 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2015 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2016 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2018 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2020 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2022 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2023 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2025 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2027 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2030 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2032 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2034 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2037 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2039 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2040 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2041 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2042 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2043 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2044 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2045 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2046 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2047 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2048 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2049 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2050 this closes: Bug#38612
2051 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2052 before. closes: Bug#40864
2054 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2056 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2059 officially uploaded.
2060 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2062 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2063 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2064 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2066 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2067 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2068 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2069 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2070 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2071 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2073 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2074 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2075 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2077 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2079 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2080 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2081 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2082 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2083 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2085 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2087 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2090 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2091 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2092 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2093 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2094 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2095 there). closes: Bug#34233
2096 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2097 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2098 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2099 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2100 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2102 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2104 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2107 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2108 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2109 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2112 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2113 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2114 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2115 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2116 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2119 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2120 number. closes: BUG#25911
2122 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2123 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2124 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2125 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2126 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2127 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2129 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2130 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2131 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2134 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2135 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2136 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2138 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2139 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2140 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2141 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2143 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2144 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2145 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2147 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2149 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2150 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2151 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2152 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2153 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2154 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2155 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2156 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2159 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2161 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2162 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2165 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2167 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2171 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2173 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2176 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2177 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2178 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2179 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2180 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2181 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2182 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2184 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2185 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2187 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2189 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2191 * non-maintainer release
2192 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2193 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2195 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2196 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2197 * no content changes
2198 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2200 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2202 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2206 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2208 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2212 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2213 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2214 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2216 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2217 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2219 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2220 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2221 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2222 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2224 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2225 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2226 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2227 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2228 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2229 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2230 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2232 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2233 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2234 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2237 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2238 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2239 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2241 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2242 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2243 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2245 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2246 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2248 * New version numbering scheme:
2250 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2251 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2252 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2255 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2256 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2257 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2258 differ between the manuals.
2260 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2261 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2262 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2263 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2265 * Packaging changes:
2267 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2268 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2270 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2272 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2274 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2278 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2279 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2280 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2282 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2283 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2286 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2287 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2288 file extension as the referenced file
2290 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2291 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2293 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2294 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2295 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2296 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2299 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2300 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2301 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2303 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2304 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2305 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2306 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2309 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2310 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2313 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2314 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2315 reasonable default configuration
2317 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2318 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2319 by all news servers and clients
2321 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2322 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2323 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2324 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2325 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2327 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2328 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2331 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2333 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2334 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2336 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2339 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2340 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2342 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2343 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2345 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2347 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2349 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2352 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2353 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2354 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2356 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2358 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2359 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2360 * Don't use debstd anymore
2362 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2364 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2367 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2368 contrib/non-free policy
2369 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2370 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2371 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2372 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2373 - new section about `Daemons'
2374 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2375 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2376 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2377 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2378 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2379 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2380 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2381 * SGML source code included in package
2382 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2384 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2386 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2389 - completely reworked structure
2390 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2391 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2392 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2393 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2394 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2395 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2396 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2397 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2398 - mention "orphaned packages"
2399 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2400 distributions' policy
2401 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2402 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2403 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2404 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2405 - added section about arch spec strings
2406 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2407 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2408 - added section about "menus"
2409 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2410 the new documentation policy soon
2411 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2412 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2414 - added section about editors and pagers
2415 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2416 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2417 - added section about device files
2418 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2419 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2420 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2422 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2423 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2424 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2425 - Added new section about obsolete names
2426 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2427 * Fixed package's description
2429 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2431 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2435 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2437 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2440 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2441 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2442 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2444 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2446 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2449 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2450 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2452 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2453 and upload it "byhand" too.
2455 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2457 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2461 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2462 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2463 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2464 functionality must not have the same name.
2465 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2466 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2467 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2468 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2469 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2470 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2471 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2473 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2474 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2475 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2476 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2477 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2478 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2479 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2480 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2483 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2485 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2487 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2489 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2490 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2491 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2492 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2493 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2496 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2498 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2500 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2502 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2503 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2504 description of deb file format.
2505 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2506 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2508 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2510 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2511 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2513 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2515 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2517 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2518 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2519 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2520 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2521 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2522 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2523 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2524 packages in section on Procedure
2525 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2526 a package maintainer
2527 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2528 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2529 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2531 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2532 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2533 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2534 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2535 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2536 on various shlib files
2537 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2538 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2539 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2541 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2543 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2545 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2546 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2547 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2549 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2550 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2551 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2552 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2553 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2555 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2557 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2559 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2561 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2563 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2564 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2565 compatibility go in contrib.
2567 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2568 instructions in policy manual.
2569 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2572 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2574 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2576 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2577 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2578 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2579 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2581 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2582 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2585 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2587 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2589 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2590 * More detail about changelog format names.
2592 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2593 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2597 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2599 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2601 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2603 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2605 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2607 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2609 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2611 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2612 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2613 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2615 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2617 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2619 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2621 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2623 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2627 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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