1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
14 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
16 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
17 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
18 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
19 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
20 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
21 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
24 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
26 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
27 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
28 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
35 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
38 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
39 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
41 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
45 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
46 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
50 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
51 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
56 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
57 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
58 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
59 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
63 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:39:15 +0200
65 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
68 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
71 Closes: #459868, #581011
72 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
73 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
75 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
78 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
80 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
83 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
85 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
87 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
88 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
93 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
96 Closes: #501930, #593909
97 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
102 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
103 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
104 machine. (Closes: #591857)
105 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
106 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
107 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
108 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
109 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
110 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
111 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
112 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
113 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
114 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
116 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
117 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
118 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
119 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
120 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
121 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
122 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
123 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
124 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
125 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
126 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
127 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
128 than the version in oldstable.
129 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
130 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
131 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
132 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
133 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
134 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
135 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
136 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
137 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
138 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
139 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
140 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
141 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
142 package. (Closes: #609160)
144 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
146 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
149 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
154 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
155 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
159 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
160 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
165 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
174 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
175 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
179 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
185 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
187 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
190 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
192 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
194 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
195 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
200 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
201 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
206 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
207 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
211 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
212 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
217 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
221 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
226 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
231 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
236 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
238 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
239 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
240 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
241 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
242 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
243 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
244 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
245 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
246 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
248 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
249 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
250 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
251 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
252 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
253 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
255 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
257 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
263 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
266 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
267 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
268 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
269 and distribution license' (three times).
270 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
271 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
276 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
278 Proposed by Santiago Vila
279 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
292 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
293 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
296 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
307 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
309 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
310 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
313 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
319 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
323 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
332 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
333 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
337 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
338 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
342 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
343 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
348 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
349 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
350 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
353 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
354 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
359 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
360 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
364 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
365 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
366 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
367 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
368 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
369 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
370 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
371 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
372 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
373 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
374 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
375 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
376 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
377 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
378 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
379 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
380 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
381 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
382 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
383 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
384 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
385 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
386 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
387 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
388 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
389 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
390 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
391 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
392 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
393 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
394 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
395 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
397 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
399 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
401 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
405 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
407 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
408 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
412 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
415 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
416 Wording: Steve Langasek.
417 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
418 Seconded: Julien Cristau
419 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
422 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
423 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
424 Seconded: Russ Allbery
425 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
428 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
429 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
430 Seconded: Russ Allbery
432 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
433 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
434 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
435 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
436 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
437 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
438 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
439 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
442 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
443 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
444 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
445 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
446 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
447 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
448 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
450 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
451 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
452 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
453 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
454 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
455 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
456 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
459 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
460 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
461 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
462 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
463 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
465 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
468 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
472 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
473 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
476 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
478 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
485 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
486 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
490 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
496 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
499 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
500 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
502 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
503 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
508 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
509 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
513 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
514 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
518 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
519 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
523 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
528 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
529 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
533 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
534 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
535 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
536 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
537 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
538 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
539 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
540 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
541 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
542 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
543 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
544 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
545 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
546 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
547 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
549 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
550 Source field descriptions.
551 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
552 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
553 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
554 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
555 description says otherwise.
557 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
559 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
563 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
566 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
567 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
569 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
570 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
574 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
575 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
579 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
580 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
584 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
585 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
586 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
587 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
591 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
592 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
593 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
594 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
595 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
597 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
598 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 * Add myself to Uploaders.
605 * Add myself to Uploaders.
606 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
608 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
609 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
610 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
612 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
614 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
617 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
622 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
624 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
631 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
634 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
636 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
637 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
641 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
642 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
646 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
647 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
649 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
651 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
652 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
654 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
656 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
657 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
658 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
661 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
662 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
666 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
667 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
670 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
672 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
673 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
674 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
675 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
676 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
677 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
678 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
679 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
680 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
681 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
682 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
683 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
684 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
685 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
686 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
687 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
688 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
689 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
690 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
691 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
692 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
693 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
694 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
695 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
696 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
697 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
698 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
699 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
700 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
701 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
703 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
704 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
705 links was completed long ago.
706 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
708 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
710 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
713 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
715 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
717 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
720 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
721 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
722 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
723 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
724 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
725 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
726 Millan (Closes: #209008).
727 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
728 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
730 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
732 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
734 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
735 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
736 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
737 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
738 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
739 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
740 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
742 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
743 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
744 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
745 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
747 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
748 Küster (Closes: #403391).
749 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
750 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
751 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
752 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
753 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
754 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
758 Closes: #186700, #458910
759 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
760 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
763 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
764 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
765 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
766 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
767 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
768 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
769 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
770 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
772 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
773 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
775 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
776 * Add an md5sums control file.
777 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
778 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
779 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
780 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
781 currently part of policy.
782 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
783 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
784 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
787 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
789 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
792 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
793 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
794 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
795 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
796 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
797 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
798 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
799 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
800 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
802 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
803 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
804 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
805 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
806 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
808 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
810 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
811 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
812 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
814 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
815 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
816 list?" (Closes: #412634).
817 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
818 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
819 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
820 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
821 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
822 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
823 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
824 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
825 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
826 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
827 debconf specification.
828 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
829 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
831 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
833 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
836 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
837 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
838 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
839 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
841 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
844 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
845 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
846 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
847 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
849 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
850 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
851 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
852 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
853 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
854 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
855 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
856 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
857 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
858 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
859 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
860 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
861 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
863 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
864 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
868 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
869 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
870 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
871 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
872 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
873 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
874 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
875 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
877 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
879 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
882 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
883 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
885 Polo (Closes: #372497).
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
887 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
890 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
891 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
892 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
894 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
895 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
896 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
898 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
900 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
901 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
902 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
903 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
904 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
905 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
907 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
909 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
912 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
913 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
914 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
917 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
921 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
924 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
925 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
926 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
927 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
928 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
929 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
930 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
931 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
932 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
934 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
935 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
936 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
937 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
938 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
939 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
941 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
943 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
944 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
947 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
949 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
952 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
954 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
955 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
956 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
957 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
958 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
959 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
960 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
961 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
962 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
963 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
964 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
965 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
966 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
967 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
968 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
969 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
970 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
972 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
973 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
974 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
975 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
976 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
977 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
978 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
980 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
981 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
982 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
983 Hess (Closes: #362247).
984 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
985 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
986 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
987 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
988 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
989 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
990 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
991 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
992 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
993 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
994 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
995 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
998 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1001 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1003 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1004 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1005 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1006 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1007 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1008 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1009 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1010 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1014 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1018 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1020 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1022 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1023 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1024 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1025 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1026 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1027 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1028 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1029 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1031 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1032 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1034 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1035 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1037 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1038 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1039 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1041 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1042 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1043 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1044 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1045 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1046 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1047 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1049 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1052 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1054 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1057 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1058 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1059 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1061 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1062 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1064 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1066 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1068 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1072 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1073 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1074 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1075 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1077 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1078 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1079 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1080 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1083 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1084 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1086 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1087 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1088 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1090 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1091 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1092 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1094 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1095 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1096 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1097 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1099 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1100 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1101 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1102 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1104 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1105 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1106 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1109 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1110 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1111 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1112 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1113 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1114 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1115 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1117 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1118 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1119 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1120 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1121 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1122 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1123 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1124 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1126 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1128 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1132 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1133 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1134 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1135 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1136 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1137 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1138 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1139 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1141 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1142 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1143 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1144 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1145 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1146 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1147 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1148 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1149 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1150 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1151 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1152 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1154 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1155 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1156 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1160 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1161 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1164 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1165 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1166 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1168 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1169 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1170 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1171 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1172 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1173 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1175 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1176 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1178 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1179 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1180 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1181 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1182 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1183 Closes: #185943, #237049
1185 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1187 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1193 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1194 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1195 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1196 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1197 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1198 running. closes: Bug#187250
1199 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1200 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1201 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1202 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1203 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1204 user closes: Bug#176506
1206 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1208 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1212 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1213 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1214 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1215 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1216 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1217 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1218 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1219 deb-building toolchain.
1220 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1221 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1222 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1223 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1224 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1225 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1226 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1227 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1228 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1229 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1230 sections about changelog files.
1232 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1233 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1234 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1235 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1236 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1237 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1239 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1240 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1241 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1242 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1243 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1244 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1245 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1246 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1247 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1248 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1249 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1250 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1251 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1252 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1253 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1254 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1255 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1256 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1257 for the restructuring
1259 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1261 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1266 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1267 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1268 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1269 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1270 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1271 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1273 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1274 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1275 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1276 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1277 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1278 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1279 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1281 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1282 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1283 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1284 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1286 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1288 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1292 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1293 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1294 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1295 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1296 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1298 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1299 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1300 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1301 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1303 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1304 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1305 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1306 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1307 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1308 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1309 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1310 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1311 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1312 offtopic stuff, too.
1313 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1314 script should start it, closes: #60979
1315 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1316 "should", closes: #170019
1317 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1318 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1319 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1320 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1321 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1322 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1323 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1324 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1327 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1329 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1333 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1334 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1335 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1336 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1337 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1338 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1339 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1340 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1342 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1343 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1344 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1345 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1346 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1347 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1348 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1349 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1350 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1352 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1353 file, closes: Bug#65764
1355 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1357 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1360 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1361 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1362 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1363 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1364 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1365 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1366 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1367 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1368 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1369 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1370 details. closes: Bug#133030
1371 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1372 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1373 parts of Bug#161455.
1375 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1377 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1380 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1381 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1382 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1383 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1384 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1385 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1386 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1387 not. closes: Bug#139820
1388 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1389 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1390 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1391 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1392 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1393 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1394 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1395 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1396 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1397 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1399 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1401 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1402 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1403 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1404 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1405 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1406 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1407 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1408 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1409 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1410 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1411 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1412 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1413 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1414 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1415 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1416 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1417 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1418 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1419 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1420 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1422 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1423 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1424 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1425 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1426 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1427 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1428 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1430 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1431 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1432 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1433 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1434 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1435 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1436 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1437 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1438 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1440 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1442 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1445 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1446 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1447 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1448 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1449 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1450 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1451 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1452 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1453 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1454 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1455 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1456 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1457 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1458 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1459 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1460 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1461 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1462 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1463 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1464 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1465 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1466 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1468 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1470 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1473 medium, high, emergency.
1474 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1475 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1476 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1477 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1478 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1481 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1482 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1483 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1485 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1486 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1487 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1488 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1489 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1490 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1491 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1494 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1496 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1499 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1500 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1501 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1503 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1504 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1505 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1506 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1507 debian/rules to do this
1508 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1509 patches are incorporated upstream
1510 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1511 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1512 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1513 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1514 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1515 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1517 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1518 system closes: Bug#91249
1519 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1520 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1521 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1522 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1523 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1524 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1525 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1526 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1527 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1528 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1529 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1530 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1531 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1533 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1535 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1538 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1539 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1540 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1542 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1543 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1544 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1546 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1549 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1551 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1554 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1555 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1556 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1557 package for the time being
1558 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1559 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1560 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1561 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1562 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1563 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1564 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1565 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1566 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1567 Build-Depends arch syntax
1568 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1570 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1571 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1573 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1574 from policy maintenance duties.
1575 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1576 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1578 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1580 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1584 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1586 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1589 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1590 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1591 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1592 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1593 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1594 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1595 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1596 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1597 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1598 minor version number for this
1599 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1600 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1601 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1602 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1603 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1604 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1605 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1606 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1607 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1609 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1611 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1614 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1615 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1616 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1617 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1619 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1621 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1622 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1623 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1624 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1625 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1626 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1627 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1628 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1629 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1630 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1631 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1632 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1633 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1634 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1635 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1636 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1639 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1641 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1644 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1646 * Document the Enhances relationship
1647 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1648 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1649 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1650 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1651 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1652 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1654 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1656 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1657 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1658 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1659 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1661 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1662 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1663 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1664 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1665 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1667 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1669 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1672 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1673 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1675 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1676 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1677 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1678 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1679 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1680 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1681 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1682 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1683 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1685 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1687 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1689 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1692 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1693 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1694 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1695 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1696 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1697 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1698 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1699 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1700 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1701 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1702 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1703 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1704 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1705 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1706 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1707 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1708 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1709 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1710 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1711 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1712 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1714 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1715 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1717 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1719 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1722 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1723 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1724 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1725 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1726 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1727 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1728 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1729 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1730 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1731 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1732 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1733 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1734 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1735 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1736 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1737 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1738 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1739 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1740 list closes: Bug#53756
1741 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1742 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1743 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1744 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1745 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1746 policy closes: Bug#53760
1747 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1748 policy closes: Bug#53761
1749 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1750 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1751 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1752 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1753 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1754 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1755 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1756 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1757 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1758 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1759 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1761 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1762 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1763 to install with older fileutils.
1764 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1765 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1766 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1767 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1769 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1770 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1772 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1774 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1777 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1779 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1781 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1784 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1786 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1789 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1792 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1794 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1796 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1798 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1801 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1803 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1805 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1808 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1809 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1810 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1811 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1812 directoried (closes: #41547)
1813 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1814 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1815 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1816 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1817 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1818 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1819 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1820 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1821 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1822 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1823 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1825 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1826 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1827 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1828 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1829 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1830 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1831 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1833 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1834 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1835 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1836 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1838 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1840 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1842 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1843 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1845 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1847 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1850 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1852 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1854 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1857 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1859 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1860 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1861 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1862 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1863 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1864 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1865 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1866 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1867 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1868 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1869 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1870 this closes: Bug#38612
1871 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1872 before. closes: Bug#40864
1874 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1876 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1879 officially uploaded.
1880 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1882 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1883 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1884 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1886 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1887 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1888 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1889 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1890 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1891 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1893 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1894 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1895 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1897 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1899 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1900 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1901 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1902 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1903 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1905 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1907 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1910 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1911 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1912 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1913 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1914 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1915 there). closes: Bug#34233
1916 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1917 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1918 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1919 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1920 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1922 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1924 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1927 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1928 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1929 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1932 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1933 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1934 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1935 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1936 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1939 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1940 number. closes: BUG#25911
1942 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1943 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1944 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1945 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1946 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1947 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1949 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1950 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1951 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1954 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1955 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1956 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1958 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1959 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1960 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1961 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1963 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1964 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1965 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1967 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1969 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1970 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1971 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1972 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1973 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1974 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1975 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1976 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1979 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1981 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1982 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1985 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1987 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1991 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1993 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1996 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1997 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1998 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1999 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2000 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2001 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2002 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2004 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2005 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2007 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2009 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2011 * non-maintainer release
2012 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2013 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2015 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2016 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2017 * no content changes
2018 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2020 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2022 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2026 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2028 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2032 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2033 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2034 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2036 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2037 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2039 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2040 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2041 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2042 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2044 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2045 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2046 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2047 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2048 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2049 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2050 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2052 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2053 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2054 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2057 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2058 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2059 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2061 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2062 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2063 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2065 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2066 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2068 * New version numbering scheme:
2070 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2071 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2072 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2075 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2076 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2077 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2078 differ between the manuals.
2080 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2081 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2082 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2083 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2085 * Packaging changes:
2087 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2088 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2090 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2092 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2094 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2098 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2099 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2100 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2102 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2103 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2106 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2107 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2108 file extension as the referenced file
2110 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2111 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2113 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2114 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2115 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2116 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2119 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2120 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2121 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2123 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2124 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2125 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2126 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2129 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2130 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2133 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2134 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2135 reasonable default configuration
2137 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2138 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2139 by all news servers and clients
2141 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2142 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2143 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2144 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2145 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2147 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2148 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2151 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2153 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2154 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2156 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2159 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2160 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2162 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2163 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2165 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2167 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2169 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2172 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2173 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2174 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2176 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2178 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2179 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2180 * Don't use debstd anymore
2182 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2184 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2187 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2188 contrib/non-free policy
2189 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2190 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2191 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2192 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2193 - new section about `Daemons'
2194 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2195 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2196 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2197 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2198 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2199 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2200 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2201 * SGML source code included in package
2202 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2204 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2206 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2209 - completely reworked structure
2210 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2211 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2212 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2213 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2214 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2215 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2216 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2217 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2218 - mention "orphaned packages"
2219 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2220 distributions' policy
2221 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2222 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2223 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2224 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2225 - added section about arch spec strings
2226 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2227 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2228 - added section about "menus"
2229 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2230 the new documentation policy soon
2231 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2232 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2234 - added section about editors and pagers
2235 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2236 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2237 - added section about device files
2238 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2239 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2240 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2242 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2243 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2244 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2245 - Added new section about obsolete names
2246 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2247 * Fixed package's description
2249 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2251 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2255 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2257 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2260 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2261 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2262 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2264 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2266 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2269 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2270 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2272 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2273 and upload it "byhand" too.
2275 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2277 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2281 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2282 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2283 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2284 functionality must not have the same name.
2285 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2286 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2287 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2288 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2289 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2290 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2291 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2293 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2294 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2295 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2296 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2297 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2298 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2299 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2300 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2303 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2305 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2307 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2309 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2310 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2311 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2312 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2313 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2316 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2318 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2320 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2322 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2323 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2324 description of deb file format.
2325 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2326 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2328 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2330 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2331 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2333 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2335 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2337 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2338 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2339 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2340 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2341 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2342 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2343 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2344 packages in section on Procedure
2345 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2346 a package maintainer
2347 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2348 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2349 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2351 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2352 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2353 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2354 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2355 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2356 on various shlib files
2357 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2358 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2359 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2361 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2363 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2365 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2366 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2367 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2369 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2370 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2371 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2372 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2373 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2375 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2377 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2379 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2381 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2383 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2384 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2385 compatibility go in contrib.
2387 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2388 instructions in policy manual.
2389 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2392 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2394 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2396 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2397 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2398 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2399 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2401 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2402 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2405 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2407 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2409 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2410 * More detail about changelog format names.
2412 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2413 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2417 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2419 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2421 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2423 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2425 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2427 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2429 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2431 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2432 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2433 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2435 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2437 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2439 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2441 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2443 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2447 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100