1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
14 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
15 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
16 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
19 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification strings (11.1)
20 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
21 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
22 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
23 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
28 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
29 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
31 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
32 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
33 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright files (12.5)
34 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
38 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
39 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
40 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
43 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
44 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
49 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
50 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
51 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
52 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
56 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:39:15 +0200
58 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Closes: #459868, #581011
65 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
68 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
71 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
76 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
78 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
85 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
86 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
89 Closes: #501930, #593909
90 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
91 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
95 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
96 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
97 machine. (Closes: #591857)
98 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
99 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
100 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
101 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
102 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
103 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
104 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
105 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
106 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
107 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
109 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
110 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
111 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
112 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
113 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
114 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
115 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
116 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
117 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
118 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
119 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
120 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
121 than the version in oldstable.
122 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
123 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
124 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
125 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
126 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
127 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
128 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
129 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
130 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
131 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
132 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
133 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
134 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
135 package. (Closes: #609160)
137 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
139 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
147 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
153 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
157 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
162 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
163 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
167 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
172 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
177 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
180 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
182 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
185 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
187 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
193 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
194 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
199 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
204 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
205 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
209 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
214 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
215 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
219 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
229 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
231 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
232 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
233 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
234 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
235 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
236 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
237 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
238 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
239 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
241 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
242 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
243 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
244 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
245 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
246 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
248 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
250 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
256 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
259 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
260 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
261 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
262 and distribution license' (three times).
263 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
264 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
269 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
271 Proposed by Santiago Vila
272 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
285 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
289 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
296 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
297 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
300 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
302 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
303 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
306 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
312 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
316 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
319 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
330 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
335 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
341 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
342 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
343 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
346 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
347 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
352 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
353 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
357 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
358 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
359 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
360 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
361 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
362 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
363 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
364 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
365 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
366 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
367 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
368 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
369 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
370 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
371 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
372 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
373 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
374 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
375 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
376 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
377 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
378 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
379 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
380 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
381 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
382 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
383 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
384 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
385 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
386 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
387 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
388 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
390 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
392 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
394 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
398 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
400 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
401 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
405 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
408 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
409 Wording: Steve Langasek.
410 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
411 Seconded: Julien Cristau
412 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
415 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
416 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
417 Seconded: Russ Allbery
418 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
421 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
422 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
423 Seconded: Russ Allbery
425 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
426 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
427 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
428 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
429 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
430 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
431 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
432 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
435 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
436 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
437 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
438 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
439 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
440 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
441 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
443 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
444 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
445 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
446 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
447 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
448 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
449 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
452 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
453 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
454 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
455 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
456 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
458 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
461 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
465 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
466 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
469 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
471 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
479 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
483 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
488 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
489 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
492 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
493 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
501 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
506 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
507 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
511 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
516 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
521 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
522 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
526 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
527 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
528 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
529 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
530 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
531 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
532 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
533 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
534 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
535 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
536 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
537 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
538 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
539 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
540 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
542 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
543 Source field descriptions.
544 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
545 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
546 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
547 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
548 description says otherwise.
550 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
552 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
556 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
559 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
560 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
563 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
567 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
572 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
573 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
577 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
578 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
579 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
580 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
584 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
585 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
586 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
587 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
588 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
590 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
591 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
595 * Add myself to Uploaders.
598 * Add myself to Uploaders.
599 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
601 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
602 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
603 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
605 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
607 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
610 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
615 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
617 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
619 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
620 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
624 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
625 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
627 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
629 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
630 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
634 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
635 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
639 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
640 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
642 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
644 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
645 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
647 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
649 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
650 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
651 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
654 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
655 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
659 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
660 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
663 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
665 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
666 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
667 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
668 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
669 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
670 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
671 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
672 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
673 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
674 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
675 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
676 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
677 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
678 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
679 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
680 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
681 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
682 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
683 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
684 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
685 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
686 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
687 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
688 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
689 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
690 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
691 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
692 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
693 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
694 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
696 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
697 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
698 links was completed long ago.
699 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
701 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
703 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
706 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
708 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
710 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
713 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
714 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
715 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
716 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
717 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
718 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
719 Millan (Closes: #209008).
720 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
721 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
723 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
725 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
727 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
728 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
729 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
730 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
731 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
732 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
733 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
735 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
736 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
737 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
738 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
740 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
741 Küster (Closes: #403391).
742 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
743 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
744 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
745 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
746 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
747 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
751 Closes: #186700, #458910
752 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
753 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
757 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
758 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
759 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
760 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
761 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
762 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
763 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
765 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
766 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
768 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
769 * Add an md5sums control file.
770 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
771 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
772 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
773 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
774 currently part of policy.
775 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
776 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
777 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
780 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
782 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
785 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
786 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
787 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
788 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
789 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
790 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
791 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
792 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
793 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
795 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
796 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
797 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
798 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
799 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
801 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
803 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
804 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
805 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
807 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
808 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
809 list?" (Closes: #412634).
810 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
811 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
812 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
813 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
814 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
815 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
816 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
817 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
818 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
819 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
820 debconf specification.
821 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
822 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
824 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
826 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
829 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
830 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
831 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
832 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
834 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
836 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
837 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
838 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
839 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
840 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
842 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
843 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
844 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
845 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
846 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
847 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
848 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
849 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
850 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
851 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
852 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
853 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
854 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
855 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
856 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
862 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
863 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
864 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
866 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
867 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
868 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
872 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
875 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
876 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
878 Polo (Closes: #372497).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
880 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
882 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
883 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
884 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
885 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
887 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
888 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
889 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
891 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
893 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
894 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
895 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
896 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
897 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
898 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
900 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
902 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
905 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
906 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
907 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
910 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
914 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
917 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
918 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
919 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
920 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
921 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
922 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
923 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
924 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
925 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
927 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
928 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
930 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
931 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
932 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
933 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
934 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
936 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
937 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
940 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
942 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
945 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
947 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
948 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
949 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
950 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
951 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
952 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
953 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
954 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
955 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
956 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
957 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
958 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
959 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
960 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
961 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
962 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
963 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
964 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
965 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
966 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
967 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
968 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
969 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
970 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
971 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
973 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
974 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
975 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
976 Hess (Closes: #362247).
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
978 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
979 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
980 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
981 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
982 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
983 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
984 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
985 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
986 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
987 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
988 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
990 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
991 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
994 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
996 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
997 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
998 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
999 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1000 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1001 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1002 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1003 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1005 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1007 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1011 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1013 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1014 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1015 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1016 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1017 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1019 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1020 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1021 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1025 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1027 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1028 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1029 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1030 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1031 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1032 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1034 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1035 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1036 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1038 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1039 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1040 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1041 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1042 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1045 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1047 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1050 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1051 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1052 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1054 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1055 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1057 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1061 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1065 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1066 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1067 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1068 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1070 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1071 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1072 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1073 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1076 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1077 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1080 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1081 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1083 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1084 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1085 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1087 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1088 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1089 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1090 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1092 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1093 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1094 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1095 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1097 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1098 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1099 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1101 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1102 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1103 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1104 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1106 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1107 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1108 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1110 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1111 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1112 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1113 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1114 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1115 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1116 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1117 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1119 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1121 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1125 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1126 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1127 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1128 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1129 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1130 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1131 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1132 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1134 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1135 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1136 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1137 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1138 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1139 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1140 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1141 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1142 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1143 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1144 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1145 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1147 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1148 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1149 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1153 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1154 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1157 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1158 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1159 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1161 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1162 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1163 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1164 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1165 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1166 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1168 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1169 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1171 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1172 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1173 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1174 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1175 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1176 Closes: #185943, #237049
1178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1180 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1186 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1187 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1188 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1189 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1190 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1191 running. closes: Bug#187250
1192 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1193 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1194 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1195 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1196 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1197 user closes: Bug#176506
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1201 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1205 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1206 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1207 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1208 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1209 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1210 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1211 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1212 deb-building toolchain.
1213 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1214 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1215 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1216 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1217 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1218 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1219 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1220 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1221 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1222 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1223 sections about changelog files.
1225 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1226 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1227 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1228 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1229 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1230 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1232 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1233 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1234 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1235 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1236 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1237 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1238 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1239 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1240 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1241 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1242 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1243 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1244 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1245 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1246 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1247 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1248 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1249 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1250 for the restructuring
1252 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1254 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1259 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1260 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1261 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1262 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1263 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1264 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1266 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1267 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1268 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1269 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1270 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1271 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1272 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1274 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1275 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1276 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1277 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1279 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1281 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1285 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1286 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1287 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1288 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1289 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1291 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1292 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1293 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1294 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1296 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1297 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1298 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1299 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1300 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1301 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1302 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1303 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1304 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1305 offtopic stuff, too.
1306 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1307 script should start it, closes: #60979
1308 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1309 "should", closes: #170019
1310 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1311 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1312 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1313 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1314 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1315 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1316 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1317 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1320 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1322 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1326 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1327 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1328 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1329 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1330 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1331 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1332 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1333 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1335 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1336 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1337 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1338 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1339 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1340 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1341 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1342 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1343 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1345 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1346 file, closes: Bug#65764
1348 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1350 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1353 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1354 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1355 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1356 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1357 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1358 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1359 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1360 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1361 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1362 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1363 details. closes: Bug#133030
1364 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1365 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1366 parts of Bug#161455.
1368 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1370 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1373 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1374 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1375 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1376 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1377 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1378 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1379 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1380 not. closes: Bug#139820
1381 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1382 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1383 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1384 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1385 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1386 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1387 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1388 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1389 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1390 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1392 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1394 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1395 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1396 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1397 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1398 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1399 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1400 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1401 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1402 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1403 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1404 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1405 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1406 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1407 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1408 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1409 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1410 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1411 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1412 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1413 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1415 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1416 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1417 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1418 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1419 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1420 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1421 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1423 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1424 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1425 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1426 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1427 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1428 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1429 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1430 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1431 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1433 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1435 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1438 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1439 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1440 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1441 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1442 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1443 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1444 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1445 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1446 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1447 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1448 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1449 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1450 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1451 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1452 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1453 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1454 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1455 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1456 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1457 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1458 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1459 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1463 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1466 medium, high, emergency.
1467 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1468 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1469 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1470 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1471 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1474 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1475 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1476 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1478 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1479 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1480 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1481 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1482 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1483 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1484 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1487 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1489 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1492 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1493 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1494 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1496 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1497 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1498 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1499 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1500 debian/rules to do this
1501 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1502 patches are incorporated upstream
1503 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1504 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1505 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1506 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1507 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1508 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1510 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1511 system closes: Bug#91249
1512 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1513 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1514 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1515 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1516 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1517 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1518 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1519 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1520 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1521 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1522 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1523 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1524 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1526 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1528 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1531 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1532 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1533 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1535 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1536 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1537 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1539 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1544 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1547 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1548 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1549 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1550 package for the time being
1551 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1552 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1553 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1554 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1555 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1556 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1557 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1558 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1559 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1560 Build-Depends arch syntax
1561 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1563 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1564 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1566 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1567 from policy maintenance duties.
1568 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1569 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1571 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1573 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1577 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1579 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1582 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1583 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1584 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1585 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1586 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1587 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1588 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1589 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1590 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1591 minor version number for this
1592 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1593 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1594 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1595 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1596 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1597 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1598 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1599 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1600 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1602 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1604 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1607 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1608 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1609 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1610 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1612 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1614 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1615 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1616 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1617 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1618 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1619 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1620 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1621 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1622 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1623 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1624 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1625 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1626 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1627 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1628 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1629 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1632 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1634 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1637 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1639 * Document the Enhances relationship
1640 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1641 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1642 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1643 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1644 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1645 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1647 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1649 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1650 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1651 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1652 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1654 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1655 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1656 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1657 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1658 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1660 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1662 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1665 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1666 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1668 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1669 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1670 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1671 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1672 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1673 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1674 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1675 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1676 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1678 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1680 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1682 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1685 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1686 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1687 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1688 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1689 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1690 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1691 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1692 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1693 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1694 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1695 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1696 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1697 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1698 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1699 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1700 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1701 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1702 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1703 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1704 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1705 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1707 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1708 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1712 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1715 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1716 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1717 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1718 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1719 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1720 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1721 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1722 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1723 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1724 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1725 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1726 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1727 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1728 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1729 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1730 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1731 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1732 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1733 list closes: Bug#53756
1734 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1735 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1736 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1737 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1738 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1739 policy closes: Bug#53760
1740 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1741 policy closes: Bug#53761
1742 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1743 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1744 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1745 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1746 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1747 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1748 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1749 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1750 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1751 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1752 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1754 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1755 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1756 to install with older fileutils.
1757 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1758 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1759 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1760 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1762 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1763 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1765 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1767 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1770 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1772 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1774 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1777 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1779 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1782 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1785 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1787 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1789 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1791 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1794 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1796 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1798 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1801 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1802 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1803 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1804 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1805 directoried (closes: #41547)
1806 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1807 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1808 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1809 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1810 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1811 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1812 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1813 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1814 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1815 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1816 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1818 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1819 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1820 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1821 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1822 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1823 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1824 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1826 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1827 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1828 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1829 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1831 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1833 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1835 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1836 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1838 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1840 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1843 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1847 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1850 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1852 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1853 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1854 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1855 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1856 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1857 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1858 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1859 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1860 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1861 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1862 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1863 this closes: Bug#38612
1864 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1865 before. closes: Bug#40864
1867 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1869 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1872 officially uploaded.
1873 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1875 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1876 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1877 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1879 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1880 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1881 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1882 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1883 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1884 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1886 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1887 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1888 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1890 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1892 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1893 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1894 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1895 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1896 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1900 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1903 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1904 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1905 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1906 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1907 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1908 there). closes: Bug#34233
1909 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1910 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1911 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1912 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1913 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1915 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1917 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1920 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1921 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1922 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1925 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1926 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1927 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1928 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1929 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1932 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1933 number. closes: BUG#25911
1935 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1936 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1937 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1938 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1939 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1940 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1942 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1943 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1944 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1947 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1948 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1949 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1951 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1952 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1953 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1954 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1956 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1957 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1958 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1960 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1962 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1963 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1964 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1965 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1966 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1967 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1968 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1969 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1972 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1974 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1975 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1978 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1980 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1984 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1986 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1989 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1990 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1991 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1992 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1993 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1994 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1995 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1997 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1998 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2000 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2002 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2004 * non-maintainer release
2005 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2006 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2008 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2009 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2010 * no content changes
2011 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2013 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2015 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2019 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2021 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2025 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2026 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2027 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2029 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2030 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2032 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2033 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2034 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2035 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2037 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2038 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2039 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2040 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2041 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2042 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2043 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2045 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2046 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2047 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2050 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2051 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2052 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2054 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2055 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2056 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2058 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2059 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2061 * New version numbering scheme:
2063 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2064 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2065 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2068 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2069 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2070 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2071 differ between the manuals.
2073 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2074 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2075 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2076 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2078 * Packaging changes:
2080 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2081 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2083 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2085 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2087 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2091 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2092 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2093 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2095 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2096 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2099 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2100 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2101 file extension as the referenced file
2103 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2104 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2106 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2107 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2108 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2109 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2112 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2113 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2114 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2116 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2117 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2118 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2119 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2122 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2123 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2126 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2127 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2128 reasonable default configuration
2130 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2131 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2132 by all news servers and clients
2134 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2135 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2136 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2137 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2138 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2140 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2141 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2144 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2146 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2147 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2149 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2152 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2153 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2155 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2156 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2158 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2160 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2162 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2165 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2166 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2167 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2169 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2171 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2172 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2173 * Don't use debstd anymore
2175 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2177 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2180 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2181 contrib/non-free policy
2182 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2183 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2184 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2185 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2186 - new section about `Daemons'
2187 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2188 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2189 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2190 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2191 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2192 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2193 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2194 * SGML source code included in package
2195 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2197 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2199 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2202 - completely reworked structure
2203 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2204 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2205 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2206 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2207 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2208 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2209 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2210 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2211 - mention "orphaned packages"
2212 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2213 distributions' policy
2214 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2215 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2216 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2217 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2218 - added section about arch spec strings
2219 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2220 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2221 - added section about "menus"
2222 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2223 the new documentation policy soon
2224 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2225 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2227 - added section about editors and pagers
2228 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2229 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2230 - added section about device files
2231 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2232 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2233 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2235 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2236 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2237 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2238 - Added new section about obsolete names
2239 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2240 * Fixed package's description
2242 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2244 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2248 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2250 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2253 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2254 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2255 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2257 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2259 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2262 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2263 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2265 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2266 and upload it "byhand" too.
2268 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2270 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2274 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2275 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2276 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2277 functionality must not have the same name.
2278 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2279 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2280 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2281 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2282 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2283 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2284 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2286 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2287 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2288 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2289 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2290 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2291 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2292 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2293 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2296 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2298 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2300 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2302 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2303 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2304 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2305 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2306 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2309 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2311 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2313 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2315 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2316 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2317 description of deb file format.
2318 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2319 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2321 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2323 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2324 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2326 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2328 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2330 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2331 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2332 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2333 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2334 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2335 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2336 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2337 packages in section on Procedure
2338 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2339 a package maintainer
2340 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2341 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2342 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2344 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2345 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2346 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2347 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2348 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2349 on various shlib files
2350 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2351 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2352 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2354 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2356 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2358 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2359 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2360 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2362 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2363 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2364 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2365 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2366 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2368 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2370 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2372 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2374 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2376 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2377 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2378 compatibility go in contrib.
2380 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2381 instructions in policy manual.
2382 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2385 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2387 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2389 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2390 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2391 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2392 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2394 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2395 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2398 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2400 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2402 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2403 * More detail about changelog format names.
2405 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2406 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2410 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2412 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2414 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2416 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2418 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2420 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2422 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2424 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2425 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2426 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2428 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2430 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2432 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2434 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2436 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2440 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100