1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
4 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
5 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
6 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
8 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
9 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
10 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
13 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
15 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
19 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
20 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
21 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
22 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
23 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
24 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
25 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
26 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
27 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
28 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
33 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
34 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
39 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
40 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
41 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
44 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
46 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
47 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
55 Closes: #620870, #532120
56 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
57 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
62 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
63 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
64 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
68 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
69 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
70 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
71 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
72 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
74 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
75 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
76 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
77 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
78 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
79 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
80 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
81 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
82 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
83 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
84 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
85 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
86 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
87 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
88 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
89 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
91 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
93 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
94 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
95 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
96 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
97 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
98 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
99 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
100 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
101 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
102 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
105 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
107 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
108 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
109 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
115 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
116 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
118 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
119 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
120 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
121 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
126 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
130 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
131 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
132 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
135 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
136 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
139 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
140 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
146 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
147 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
151 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
152 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
157 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
158 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
159 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
160 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
163 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
164 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
165 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
168 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
169 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
174 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
176 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
182 Closes: #459868, #581011
183 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
186 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
188 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
189 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
191 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
194 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
196 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
198 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
199 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
203 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
204 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
207 Closes: #501930, #593909
208 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
209 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
213 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
214 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
215 machine. (Closes: #591857)
216 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
217 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
218 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
219 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
220 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
221 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
222 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
223 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
224 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
225 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
227 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
228 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
229 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
230 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
231 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
232 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
233 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
234 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
235 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
236 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
237 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
238 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
239 than the version in oldstable.
240 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
241 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
242 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
243 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
244 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
245 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
246 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
247 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
248 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
249 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
250 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
251 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
252 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
253 package. (Closes: #609160)
255 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
257 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
265 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
266 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
270 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
271 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
275 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
276 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
280 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
281 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
290 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
295 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
298 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
300 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
303 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
305 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
317 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
318 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
322 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
323 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
327 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
328 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
332 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
333 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
337 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
338 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
342 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
343 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
347 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
349 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
350 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
351 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
352 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
353 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
354 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
355 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
356 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
357 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
359 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
360 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
361 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
362 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
363 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
364 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
366 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
368 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
374 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
377 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
378 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
379 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
380 and distribution license' (three times).
381 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
382 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
387 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
389 Proposed by Santiago Vila
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
402 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
403 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
407 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
409 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
418 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
421 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
424 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
430 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
434 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
437 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
443 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
448 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
449 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
453 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
459 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
460 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
464 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
465 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
470 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
471 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
475 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
476 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
477 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
478 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
479 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
480 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
481 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
482 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
483 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
484 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
485 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
486 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
487 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
488 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
489 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
490 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
491 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
492 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
493 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
494 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
495 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
496 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
497 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
498 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
499 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
500 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
501 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
502 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
503 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
504 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
505 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
506 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
508 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
510 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
512 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
516 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
518 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
519 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
523 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
526 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
527 Wording: Steve Langasek.
528 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
529 Seconded: Julien Cristau
530 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
533 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
534 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
535 Seconded: Russ Allbery
536 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
539 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
540 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
541 Seconded: Russ Allbery
543 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
544 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
545 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
546 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
547 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
548 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
549 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
550 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
553 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
554 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
555 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
556 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
557 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
558 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
559 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
561 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
562 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
563 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
564 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
565 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
566 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
567 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
570 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
571 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
572 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
573 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
574 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
576 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
579 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
583 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
584 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
587 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
589 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
592 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
597 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
601 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
607 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
610 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
611 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
613 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
614 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
619 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
620 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
624 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
625 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
629 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
630 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
634 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
635 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
639 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
640 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
644 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
645 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
646 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
647 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
648 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
649 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
650 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
651 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
652 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
653 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
654 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
655 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
656 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
657 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
658 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
660 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
661 Source field descriptions.
662 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
663 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
664 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
665 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
666 description says otherwise.
668 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
670 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
674 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
677 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
678 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
680 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
681 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
685 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
686 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
690 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
691 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
695 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
696 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
697 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
698 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
702 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
703 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
704 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
705 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
706 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
708 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
709 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
713 * Add myself to Uploaders.
716 * Add myself to Uploaders.
717 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
719 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
720 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
721 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
723 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
725 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
728 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
733 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
735 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
737 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
738 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
742 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
743 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
745 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
747 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
748 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
752 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
753 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
757 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
758 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
760 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
762 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
763 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
765 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
767 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
768 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
769 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
772 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
773 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
777 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
778 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
781 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
783 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
784 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
785 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
786 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
787 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
788 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
789 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
790 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
791 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
792 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
793 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
794 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
795 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
796 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
797 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
798 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
799 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
800 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
801 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
802 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
803 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
804 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
805 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
806 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
807 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
808 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
809 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
810 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
811 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
812 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
814 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
815 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
816 links was completed long ago.
817 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
819 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
821 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
824 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
826 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
828 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
831 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
832 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
833 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
834 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
835 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
836 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
837 Millan (Closes: #209008).
838 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
839 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
841 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
843 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
845 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
846 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
847 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
848 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
849 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
850 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
851 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
853 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
854 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
855 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
856 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
858 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
859 Küster (Closes: #403391).
860 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
861 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
862 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
863 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
864 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
865 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
867 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
869 Closes: #186700, #458910
870 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
871 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
875 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
876 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
877 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
878 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
879 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
880 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
881 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
883 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
884 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
886 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
887 * Add an md5sums control file.
888 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
889 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
890 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
891 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
892 currently part of policy.
893 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
894 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
895 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
898 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
900 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
903 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
904 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
905 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
906 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
907 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
908 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
909 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
910 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
911 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
913 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
914 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
915 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
916 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
917 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
919 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
921 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
922 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
923 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
925 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
926 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
927 list?" (Closes: #412634).
928 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
929 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
930 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
931 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
932 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
933 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
934 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
935 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
936 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
937 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
938 debconf specification.
939 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
940 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
942 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
944 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
947 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
949 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
950 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
955 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
956 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
957 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
958 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
960 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
961 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
962 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
963 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
964 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
965 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
966 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
967 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
968 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
969 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
970 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
971 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
972 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
974 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
980 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
981 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
982 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
984 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
985 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
986 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
988 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
990 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
993 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
994 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
996 Polo (Closes: #372497).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
998 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1001 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1002 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1003 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1005 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1006 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1007 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1008 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1009 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1011 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1012 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1014 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1015 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1016 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1018 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1020 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1023 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1024 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1025 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1027 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1028 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1030 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1032 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1035 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1036 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1037 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1038 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1039 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1040 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1041 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1042 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1043 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1045 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1046 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1048 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1049 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1050 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1051 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1052 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1054 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1055 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1058 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1060 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1063 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1065 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1066 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1067 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1068 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1069 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1070 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1071 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1072 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1073 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1074 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1075 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1076 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1077 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1078 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1079 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1080 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1081 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1083 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1084 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1085 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1086 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1087 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1088 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1089 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1091 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1092 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1093 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1094 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1095 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1096 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1097 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1098 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1099 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1100 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1101 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1102 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1103 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1104 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1105 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1106 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1109 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1112 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1114 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1115 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1116 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1117 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1118 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1119 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1120 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1121 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1123 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1125 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1129 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1131 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1133 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1134 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1135 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1137 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1138 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1139 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1143 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1145 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1146 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1148 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1150 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1152 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1154 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1155 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1156 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1157 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1158 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1160 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1163 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1165 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1168 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1169 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1170 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1172 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1173 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1174 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1175 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1179 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1183 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1184 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1185 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1186 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1188 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1189 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1190 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1191 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1194 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1195 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1198 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1199 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1201 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1202 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1203 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1205 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1206 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1207 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1208 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1210 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1211 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1212 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1213 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1215 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1216 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1217 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1220 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1221 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1222 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1224 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1225 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1226 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1228 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1229 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1230 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1231 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1232 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1233 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1234 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1235 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1237 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1239 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1243 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1244 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1245 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1246 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1247 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1248 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1249 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1250 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1252 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1253 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1254 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1255 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1256 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1257 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1258 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1259 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1260 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1261 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1262 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1263 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1265 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1266 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1267 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1271 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1272 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1275 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1276 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1277 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1279 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1280 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1281 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1282 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1283 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1284 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1286 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1287 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1289 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1290 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1291 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1292 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1293 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1294 Closes: #185943, #237049
1296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1298 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1304 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1305 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1306 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1307 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1308 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1309 running. closes: Bug#187250
1310 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1311 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1312 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1313 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1314 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1315 user closes: Bug#176506
1317 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1319 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1323 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1324 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1325 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1326 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1327 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1328 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1329 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1330 deb-building toolchain.
1331 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1332 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1333 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1334 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1335 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1336 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1337 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1338 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1339 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1340 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1341 sections about changelog files.
1343 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1344 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1345 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1346 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1347 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1348 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1350 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1351 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1352 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1353 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1354 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1355 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1356 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1357 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1358 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1359 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1360 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1361 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1362 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1363 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1364 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1365 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1366 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1367 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1368 for the restructuring
1370 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1372 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1377 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1378 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1379 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1380 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1381 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1382 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1384 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1385 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1386 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1387 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1388 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1389 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1390 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1392 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1393 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1394 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1395 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1397 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1399 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1403 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1404 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1405 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1406 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1407 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1409 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1410 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1411 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1412 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1414 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1415 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1416 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1417 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1418 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1419 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1420 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1421 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1422 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1423 offtopic stuff, too.
1424 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1425 script should start it, closes: #60979
1426 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1427 "should", closes: #170019
1428 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1429 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1430 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1431 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1432 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1433 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1434 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1435 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1438 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1440 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1444 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1445 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1446 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1447 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1448 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1449 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1450 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1451 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1453 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1454 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1455 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1456 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1457 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1458 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1459 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1460 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1461 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1463 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1464 file, closes: Bug#65764
1466 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1468 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1471 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1472 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1473 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1474 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1475 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1476 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1477 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1478 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1479 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1480 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1481 details. closes: Bug#133030
1482 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1483 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1484 parts of Bug#161455.
1486 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1488 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1491 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1492 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1493 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1494 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1495 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1496 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1497 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1498 not. closes: Bug#139820
1499 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1500 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1501 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1502 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1503 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1504 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1505 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1506 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1507 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1508 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1510 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1512 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1513 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1514 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1515 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1516 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1517 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1518 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1519 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1520 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1521 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1522 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1523 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1524 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1525 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1526 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1527 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1528 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1529 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1530 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1531 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1533 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1534 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1535 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1536 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1537 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1538 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1539 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1541 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1542 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1543 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1544 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1545 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1546 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1547 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1548 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1549 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1551 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1553 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1556 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1557 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1558 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1559 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1560 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1561 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1562 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1563 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1564 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1565 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1566 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1567 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1568 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1569 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1570 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1571 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1572 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1573 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1574 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1575 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1576 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1577 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1579 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1581 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1584 medium, high, emergency.
1585 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1586 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1587 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1588 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1589 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1592 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1593 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1594 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1596 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1597 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1598 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1599 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1600 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1601 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1602 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1607 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1610 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1611 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1612 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1614 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1615 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1616 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1617 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1618 debian/rules to do this
1619 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1620 patches are incorporated upstream
1621 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1622 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1623 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1624 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1625 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1626 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1628 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1629 system closes: Bug#91249
1630 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1631 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1632 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1633 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1634 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1635 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1636 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1637 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1638 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1639 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1640 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1641 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1642 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1644 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1646 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1649 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1650 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1651 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1653 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1654 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1655 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1657 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1660 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1662 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1665 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1666 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1667 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1668 package for the time being
1669 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1670 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1671 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1672 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1673 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1674 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1675 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1676 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1677 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1678 Build-Depends arch syntax
1679 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1681 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1682 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1684 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1685 from policy maintenance duties.
1686 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1687 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1689 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1691 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1695 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1697 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1700 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1701 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1702 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1703 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1704 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1705 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1706 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1707 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1708 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1709 minor version number for this
1710 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1711 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1712 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1713 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1714 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1715 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1716 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1717 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1718 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1720 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1722 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1725 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1726 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1727 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1728 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1730 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1732 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1733 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1734 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1735 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1736 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1737 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1738 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1739 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1740 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1741 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1742 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1743 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1744 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1745 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1746 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1747 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1750 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1752 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1755 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1757 * Document the Enhances relationship
1758 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1759 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1760 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1761 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1762 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1763 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1765 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1767 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1768 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1769 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1770 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1772 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1773 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1774 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1775 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1776 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1778 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1780 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1783 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1784 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1786 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1787 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1788 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1789 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1790 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1791 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1792 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1793 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1794 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1796 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1798 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1800 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1803 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1804 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1805 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1806 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1807 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1808 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1809 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1810 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1811 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1812 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1813 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1814 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1815 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1816 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1817 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1818 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1819 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1820 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1821 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1822 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1823 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1825 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1826 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1830 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1833 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1834 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1835 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1836 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1837 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1838 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1839 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1840 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1841 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1842 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1843 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1844 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1845 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1846 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1847 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1848 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1849 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1850 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1851 list closes: Bug#53756
1852 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1853 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1854 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1855 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1856 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1857 policy closes: Bug#53760
1858 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1859 policy closes: Bug#53761
1860 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1861 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1862 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1863 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1864 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1865 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1866 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1867 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1868 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1869 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1870 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1872 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1873 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1874 to install with older fileutils.
1875 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1876 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1877 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1878 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1880 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1881 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1885 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1888 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1890 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1892 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1895 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1897 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1900 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1903 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1905 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1907 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1909 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1912 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1914 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1916 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1919 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1920 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1921 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1922 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1923 directoried (closes: #41547)
1924 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1925 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1926 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1927 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1928 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1929 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1930 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1931 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1932 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1933 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1934 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1936 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1937 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1938 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1939 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1940 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1941 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1942 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1944 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1945 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1946 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1947 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1949 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1951 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1953 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1954 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1956 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1958 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1961 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1963 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1965 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1968 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1970 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1971 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1972 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1973 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1974 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1975 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1976 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1977 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1978 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1979 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1980 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1981 this closes: Bug#38612
1982 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1983 before. closes: Bug#40864
1985 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1987 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1990 officially uploaded.
1991 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1993 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1994 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1995 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1997 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1998 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1999 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2000 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2001 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2002 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2004 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2005 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2006 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2008 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2010 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2011 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2012 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2013 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2014 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2018 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2021 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2022 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2023 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2024 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2025 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2026 there). closes: Bug#34233
2027 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2028 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2029 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2030 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2031 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2033 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2035 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2038 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2039 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2040 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2043 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2044 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2045 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2046 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2047 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2050 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2051 number. closes: BUG#25911
2053 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2054 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2055 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2056 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2057 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2058 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2060 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2061 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2062 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2065 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2066 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2067 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2069 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2070 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2071 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2072 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2074 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2075 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2076 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2078 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2080 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2081 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2082 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2083 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2084 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2085 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2086 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2087 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2090 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2092 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2093 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2096 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2098 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2102 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2104 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2107 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2108 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2109 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2110 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2111 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2112 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2113 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2115 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2116 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2118 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2120 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2122 * non-maintainer release
2123 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2124 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2126 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2127 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2128 * no content changes
2129 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2131 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2133 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2137 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2139 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2143 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2144 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2145 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2147 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2148 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2150 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2151 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2152 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2153 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2155 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2156 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2157 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2158 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2159 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2160 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2161 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2163 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2164 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2165 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2168 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2169 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2170 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2172 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2173 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2174 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2176 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2177 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2179 * New version numbering scheme:
2181 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2182 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2183 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2186 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2187 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2188 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2189 differ between the manuals.
2191 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2192 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2193 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2194 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2196 * Packaging changes:
2198 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2199 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2201 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2203 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2205 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2209 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2210 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2211 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2213 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2214 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2217 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2218 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2219 file extension as the referenced file
2221 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2222 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2224 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2225 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2226 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2227 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2230 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2231 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2232 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2234 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2235 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2236 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2237 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2240 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2241 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2244 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2245 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2246 reasonable default configuration
2248 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2249 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2250 by all news servers and clients
2252 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2253 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2254 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2255 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2256 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2258 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2259 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2262 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2264 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2265 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2267 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2270 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2271 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2273 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2274 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2276 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2278 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2280 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2283 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2284 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2285 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2287 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2289 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2290 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2291 * Don't use debstd anymore
2293 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2295 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2298 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2299 contrib/non-free policy
2300 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2301 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2302 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2303 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2304 - new section about `Daemons'
2305 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2306 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2307 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2308 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2309 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2310 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2311 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2312 * SGML source code included in package
2313 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2315 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2317 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2320 - completely reworked structure
2321 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2322 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2323 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2324 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2325 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2326 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2327 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2328 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2329 - mention "orphaned packages"
2330 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2331 distributions' policy
2332 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2333 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2334 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2335 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2336 - added section about arch spec strings
2337 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2338 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2339 - added section about "menus"
2340 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2341 the new documentation policy soon
2342 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2343 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2345 - added section about editors and pagers
2346 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2347 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2348 - added section about device files
2349 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2350 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2351 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2353 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2354 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2355 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2356 - Added new section about obsolete names
2357 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2358 * Fixed package's description
2360 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2362 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2366 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2368 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2371 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2372 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2373 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2375 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2377 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2380 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2381 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2383 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2384 and upload it "byhand" too.
2386 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2388 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2392 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2393 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2394 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2395 functionality must not have the same name.
2396 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2397 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2398 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2399 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2400 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2401 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2402 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2404 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2405 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2406 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2407 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2408 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2409 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2410 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2411 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2414 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2416 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2418 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2420 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2421 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2422 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2423 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2424 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2427 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2429 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2431 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2433 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2434 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2435 description of deb file format.
2436 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2437 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2439 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2441 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2442 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2444 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2446 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2448 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2449 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2450 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2451 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2452 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2453 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2454 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2455 packages in section on Procedure
2456 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2457 a package maintainer
2458 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2459 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2460 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2462 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2463 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2464 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2465 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2466 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2467 on various shlib files
2468 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2469 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2470 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2472 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2474 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2476 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2477 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2478 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2480 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2481 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2482 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2483 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2484 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2486 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2488 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2490 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2492 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2494 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2495 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2496 compatibility go in contrib.
2498 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2499 instructions in policy manual.
2500 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2503 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2505 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2507 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2508 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2509 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2510 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2512 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2513 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2516 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2518 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2520 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2521 * More detail about changelog format names.
2523 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2524 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2528 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2530 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2532 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2534 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2536 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2538 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2540 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2542 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2543 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2544 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2546 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2548 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2550 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2552 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2554 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2558 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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