1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Update dak reference from old katie name. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
21 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
23 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
25 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
27 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
28 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
29 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
31 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
32 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
33 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
40 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
45 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
49 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
50 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
51 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
52 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
57 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
64 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
68 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
72 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
73 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
78 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
80 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
83 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
84 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
85 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
86 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
88 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
89 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
90 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
91 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
92 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
93 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
94 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
95 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
96 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
97 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
98 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
99 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
100 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
101 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
102 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
103 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
104 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
106 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
107 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
108 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
109 good to know which version one is looking at.
110 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
111 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
112 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
113 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
114 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
115 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
116 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
118 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
119 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
120 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
121 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
122 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
124 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
125 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
126 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
128 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
129 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
130 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
131 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
133 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
135 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
139 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
140 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
141 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
142 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
143 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
144 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
145 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
146 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
147 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
148 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
154 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
159 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
160 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
161 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
164 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
166 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
167 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
172 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
175 Closes: #620870, #532120
176 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
177 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
182 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
183 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
184 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
188 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
189 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
190 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
191 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
192 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
194 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
195 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
196 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
197 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
198 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
199 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
200 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
201 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
202 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
203 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
204 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
205 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
206 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
207 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
208 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
209 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
211 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
213 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
214 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
215 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
216 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
217 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
218 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
219 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
220 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
221 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
222 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
225 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
227 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
228 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
229 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
230 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
235 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
236 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
238 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
239 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
240 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
241 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
244 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
246 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
250 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
251 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
252 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
255 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
256 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
257 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
259 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
260 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
266 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
267 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
268 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
271 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
272 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
277 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
278 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
279 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
280 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
283 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
284 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
285 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
288 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
289 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
294 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
296 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
302 Closes: #459868, #581011
303 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
306 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
309 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
311 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
314 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
316 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
318 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
319 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
323 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
324 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
327 Closes: #501930, #593909
328 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
329 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
333 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
334 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
335 machine. (Closes: #591857)
336 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
337 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
338 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
339 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
340 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
341 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
342 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
343 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
344 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
345 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
347 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
348 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
349 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
350 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
351 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
352 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
353 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
354 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
355 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
356 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
357 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
358 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
359 than the version in oldstable.
360 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
361 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
362 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
363 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
364 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
365 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
366 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
367 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
368 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
369 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
370 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
371 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
372 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
373 package. (Closes: #609160)
375 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
377 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
385 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
386 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
390 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
391 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
395 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
396 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
400 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
401 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
405 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
406 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
410 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
411 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
415 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
416 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
418 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
423 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
425 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
426 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
431 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
432 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
437 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
442 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
443 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
447 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
448 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
452 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
457 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
467 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
469 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
470 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
471 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
472 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
473 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
474 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
475 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
476 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
477 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
479 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
480 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
481 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
482 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
483 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
484 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
486 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
488 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
494 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
497 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
498 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
499 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
500 and distribution license' (three times).
501 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
502 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
507 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
509 Proposed by Santiago Vila
510 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
517 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
522 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
523 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
527 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
529 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
534 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
535 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
538 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
541 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
544 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
546 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
550 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
552 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
553 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
554 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
555 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
557 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
563 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
564 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
568 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
569 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
573 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
579 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
580 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
584 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
585 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
590 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
591 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
595 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
596 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
597 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
598 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
599 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
600 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
601 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
602 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
603 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
604 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
605 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
606 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
607 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
608 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
609 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
610 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
611 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
612 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
613 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
614 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
615 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
616 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
617 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
618 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
619 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
620 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
621 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
622 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
623 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
624 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
625 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
626 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
628 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
630 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
632 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
636 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
638 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
639 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
643 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
646 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
647 Wording: Steve Langasek.
648 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
649 Seconded: Julien Cristau
650 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
653 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
654 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
655 Seconded: Russ Allbery
656 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
659 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
660 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
661 Seconded: Russ Allbery
663 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
664 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
665 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
666 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
667 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
668 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
669 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
670 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
673 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
674 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
675 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
676 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
677 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
678 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
679 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
681 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
682 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
683 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
684 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
685 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
686 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
687 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
690 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
691 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
692 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
693 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
694 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
696 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
699 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
700 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
703 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
704 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
707 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
709 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
712 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
716 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
717 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
721 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
722 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
726 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
727 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
730 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
731 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
733 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
734 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
739 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
740 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
744 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
745 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
749 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
750 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
754 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
759 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
760 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
764 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
765 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
766 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
767 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
768 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
769 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
770 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
771 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
772 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
773 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
774 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
775 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
776 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
777 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
778 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
780 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
781 Source field descriptions.
782 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
783 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
784 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
785 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
786 description says otherwise.
788 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
790 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
794 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
796 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
797 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
798 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
800 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
801 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
802 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
805 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
806 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
807 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
808 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
810 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
811 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
812 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
813 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
815 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
816 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
817 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
818 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
822 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
823 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
824 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
825 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
826 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
828 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
829 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
830 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
831 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
833 * Add myself to Uploaders.
836 * Add myself to Uploaders.
837 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
839 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
840 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
841 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
843 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
845 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
848 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
849 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
852 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
853 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
854 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
855 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
857 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
858 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
862 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
863 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
865 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
867 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
868 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
872 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
873 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
877 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
878 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
880 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
882 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
883 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
885 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
887 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
888 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
889 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
892 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
893 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
897 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
898 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
900 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
901 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
903 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
904 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
905 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
906 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
907 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
908 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
909 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
910 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
911 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
912 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
913 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
914 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
915 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
916 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
917 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
918 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
919 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
920 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
921 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
922 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
923 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
924 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
925 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
926 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
927 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
928 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
929 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
930 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
931 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
932 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
934 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
935 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
936 links was completed long ago.
937 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
939 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
941 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
944 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
946 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
948 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
951 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
952 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
953 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
954 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
955 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
956 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
957 Millan (Closes: #209008).
958 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
959 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
961 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
963 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
965 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
966 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
967 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
968 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
969 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
970 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
971 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
973 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
974 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
975 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
976 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
978 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
979 Küster (Closes: #403391).
980 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
981 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
982 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
983 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
984 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
985 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
986 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
987 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
988 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
989 Closes: #186700, #458910
990 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
991 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
992 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
994 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
995 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
996 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
997 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
998 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
999 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1000 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1001 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1003 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1004 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1006 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1007 * Add an md5sums control file.
1008 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1009 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1010 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1011 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1012 currently part of policy.
1013 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1014 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1015 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1018 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1020 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1023 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1024 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1025 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1026 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1027 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1028 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1029 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1030 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1031 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1033 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1034 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1035 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1036 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1037 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1039 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1041 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1042 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1043 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1045 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1046 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1047 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1048 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1049 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1050 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1051 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1052 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1053 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1054 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1055 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1056 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1057 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1058 debconf specification.
1059 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1060 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1062 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1064 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1067 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1069 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1070 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1072 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1074 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1075 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1076 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1077 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1078 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1080 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1081 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1082 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1083 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1084 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1085 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1086 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1087 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1088 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1089 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1090 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1091 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1092 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1093 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1094 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1095 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1097 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1099 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1100 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1101 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1102 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1104 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1105 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1106 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1108 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1110 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1113 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1114 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1116 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1118 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1121 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1122 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1123 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1125 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1127 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1129 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1131 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1132 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1134 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1135 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1136 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1138 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1140 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1143 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1144 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1145 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1148 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1150 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1152 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1155 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1156 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1157 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1158 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1159 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1160 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1161 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1162 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1163 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1165 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1166 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1168 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1169 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1170 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1172 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1174 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1175 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1180 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1183 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1185 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1186 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1187 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1188 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1189 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1190 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1191 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1192 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1193 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1194 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1195 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1196 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1197 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1198 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1199 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1200 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1201 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1202 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1203 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1204 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1205 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1206 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1207 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1208 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1209 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1211 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1212 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1213 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1214 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1216 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1217 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1218 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1219 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1220 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1221 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1222 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1223 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1224 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1225 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1226 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1229 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1232 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1234 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1235 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1236 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1237 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1238 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1239 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1240 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1241 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1243 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1245 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1249 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1251 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1253 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1254 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1255 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1256 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1257 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1258 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1259 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1263 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1265 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1266 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1268 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1270 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1272 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1274 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1276 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1277 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1278 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1280 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1283 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1285 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1288 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1289 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1290 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1292 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1293 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1295 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1297 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1299 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1303 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1304 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1305 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1306 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1308 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1309 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1310 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1311 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1314 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1315 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1318 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1319 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1321 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1322 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1323 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1325 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1326 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1327 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1328 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1331 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1332 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1333 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1335 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1336 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1337 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1340 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1341 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1342 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1344 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1345 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1346 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1348 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1349 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1350 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1351 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1352 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1353 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1354 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1355 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1357 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1359 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1363 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1364 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1365 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1366 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1367 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1368 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1369 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1370 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1372 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1373 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1374 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1375 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1376 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1377 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1378 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1379 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1380 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1381 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1382 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1383 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1385 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1386 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1387 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1388 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1390 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1391 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1392 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1395 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1396 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1397 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1399 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1400 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1401 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1402 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1403 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1404 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1406 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1407 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1409 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1410 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1411 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1412 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1413 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1414 Closes: #185943, #237049
1416 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1418 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1424 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1425 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1426 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1427 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1428 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1429 running. closes: Bug#187250
1430 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1431 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1432 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1433 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1434 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1435 user closes: Bug#176506
1437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1439 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1443 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1444 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1445 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1446 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1447 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1448 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1449 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1450 deb-building toolchain.
1451 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1452 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1453 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1454 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1455 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1456 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1457 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1458 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1459 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1460 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1461 sections about changelog files.
1463 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1464 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1465 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1466 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1467 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1468 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1470 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1471 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1472 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1473 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1474 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1475 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1476 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1477 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1478 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1479 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1480 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1481 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1482 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1483 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1484 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1485 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1486 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1487 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1488 for the restructuring
1490 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1492 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1497 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1498 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1499 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1500 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1501 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1502 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1504 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1505 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1506 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1507 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1508 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1509 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1510 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1512 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1513 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1514 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1515 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1517 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1519 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1523 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1524 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1525 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1526 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1527 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1529 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1530 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1531 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1532 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1534 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1535 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1536 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1537 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1538 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1539 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1540 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1541 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1542 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1543 offtopic stuff, too.
1544 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1545 script should start it, closes: #60979
1546 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1547 "should", closes: #170019
1548 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1549 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1550 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1551 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1552 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1553 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1554 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1555 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1558 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1560 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1564 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1565 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1566 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1567 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1568 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1569 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1570 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1571 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1573 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1574 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1575 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1576 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1577 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1578 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1579 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1580 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1581 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1583 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1584 file, closes: Bug#65764
1586 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1588 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1591 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1592 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1593 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1594 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1595 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1596 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1597 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1598 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1599 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1600 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1601 details. closes: Bug#133030
1602 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1603 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1604 parts of Bug#161455.
1606 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1608 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1611 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1612 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1613 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1614 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1615 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1616 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1617 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1618 not. closes: Bug#139820
1619 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1620 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1621 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1622 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1623 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1624 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1625 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1626 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1627 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1628 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1630 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1632 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1633 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1634 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1635 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1636 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1637 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1638 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1639 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1640 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1641 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1642 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1643 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1644 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1645 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1646 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1647 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1648 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1649 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1650 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1651 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1653 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1654 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1655 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1656 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1657 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1658 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1659 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1661 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1662 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1663 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1664 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1665 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1666 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1667 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1668 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1669 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1671 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1673 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1676 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1677 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1678 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1679 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1680 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1681 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1682 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1683 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1684 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1685 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1686 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1687 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1688 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1689 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1690 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1691 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1692 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1693 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1694 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1695 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1696 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1697 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1699 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1701 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1704 medium, high, emergency.
1705 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1706 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1707 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1708 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1709 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1712 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1713 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1714 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1716 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1717 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1718 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1719 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1720 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1721 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1722 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1725 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1727 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1730 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1731 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1732 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1734 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1735 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1736 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1737 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1738 debian/rules to do this
1739 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1740 patches are incorporated upstream
1741 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1742 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1743 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1744 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1745 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1746 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1748 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1749 system closes: Bug#91249
1750 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1751 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1752 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1753 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1754 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1755 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1756 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1757 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1758 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1759 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1760 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1761 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1762 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1764 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1766 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1769 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1770 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1771 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1773 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1774 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1775 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1777 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1780 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1782 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1785 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1786 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1787 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1788 package for the time being
1789 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1790 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1791 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1792 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1793 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1794 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1795 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1796 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1797 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1798 Build-Depends arch syntax
1799 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1801 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1802 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1804 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1805 from policy maintenance duties.
1806 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1807 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1809 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1811 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1815 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1817 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1820 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1821 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1822 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1823 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1824 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1825 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1826 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1827 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1828 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1829 minor version number for this
1830 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1831 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1832 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1833 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1834 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1835 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1836 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1837 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1838 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1840 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1842 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1845 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1846 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1847 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1848 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1850 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1852 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1853 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1854 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1855 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1856 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1857 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1858 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1859 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1860 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1861 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1862 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1863 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1864 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1865 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1866 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1867 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1872 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1875 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1877 * Document the Enhances relationship
1878 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1879 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1880 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1881 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1882 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1883 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1885 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1887 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1888 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1889 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1890 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1892 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1893 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1894 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1895 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1896 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1900 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1903 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1904 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1906 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1907 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1908 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1909 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1910 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1911 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1912 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1913 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1914 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1916 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1918 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1920 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1923 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1924 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1925 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1926 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1927 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1928 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1929 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1930 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1931 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1932 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1933 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1934 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1935 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1936 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1937 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1938 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1939 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1940 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1941 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1942 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1943 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1945 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1946 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1948 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1950 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1953 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1954 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1955 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1956 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1957 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1958 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1959 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1960 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1961 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1962 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1963 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1964 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1965 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1966 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1967 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1968 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1969 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1970 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1971 list closes: Bug#53756
1972 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1973 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1974 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1975 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1976 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1977 policy closes: Bug#53760
1978 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1979 policy closes: Bug#53761
1980 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1981 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1982 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1983 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1984 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1985 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1986 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1987 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1988 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1989 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1990 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1992 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1993 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1994 to install with older fileutils.
1995 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1996 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1997 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1998 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2000 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2001 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2003 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2005 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2008 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2012 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2015 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2017 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2020 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2023 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2025 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2027 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2029 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2032 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2034 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2036 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2039 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2040 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2041 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2042 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2043 directoried (closes: #41547)
2044 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2045 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2046 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2047 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2048 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2049 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2050 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2051 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2052 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2053 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2054 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2056 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2057 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2058 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2059 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2060 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2061 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2062 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2064 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2065 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2066 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2067 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2069 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2071 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2073 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2074 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2076 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2078 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2081 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2083 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2085 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2088 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2090 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2091 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2092 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2093 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2094 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2095 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2096 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2097 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2098 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2099 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2100 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2101 this closes: Bug#38612
2102 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2103 before. closes: Bug#40864
2105 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2107 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2110 officially uploaded.
2111 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2113 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2114 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2115 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2117 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2118 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2119 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2120 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2121 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2122 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2124 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2125 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2126 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2128 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2130 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2131 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2132 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2133 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2134 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2136 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2138 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2141 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2142 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2143 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2144 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2145 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2146 there). closes: Bug#34233
2147 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2148 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2149 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2150 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2151 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2153 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2155 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2158 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2159 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2160 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2163 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2164 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2165 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2166 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2167 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2170 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2171 number. closes: BUG#25911
2173 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2174 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2175 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2176 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2177 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2178 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2180 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2181 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2182 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2185 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2186 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2187 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2189 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2190 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2191 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2192 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2194 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2195 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2196 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2198 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2200 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2201 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2202 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2203 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2204 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2205 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2206 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2207 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2210 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2212 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2213 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2218 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2222 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2224 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2227 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2228 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2229 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2230 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2231 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2232 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2233 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2235 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2236 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2238 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2240 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2242 * non-maintainer release
2243 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2244 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2246 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2247 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2248 * no content changes
2249 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2251 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2253 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2257 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2259 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2263 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2264 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2265 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2267 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2268 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2270 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2271 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2272 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2273 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2275 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2276 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2277 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2278 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2279 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2280 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2281 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2283 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2284 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2285 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2288 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2289 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2290 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2292 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2293 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2294 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2296 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2297 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2299 * New version numbering scheme:
2301 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2302 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2303 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2306 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2307 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2308 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2309 differ between the manuals.
2311 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2312 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2313 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2314 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2316 * Packaging changes:
2318 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2319 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2321 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2323 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2325 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2329 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2330 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2331 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2333 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2334 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2337 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2338 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2339 file extension as the referenced file
2341 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2342 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2344 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2345 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2346 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2347 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2350 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2351 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2352 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2354 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2355 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2356 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2357 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2360 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2361 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2364 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2365 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2366 reasonable default configuration
2368 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2369 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2370 by all news servers and clients
2372 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2373 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2374 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2375 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2376 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2378 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2379 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2382 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2384 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2385 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2387 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2390 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2391 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2393 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2394 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2396 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2398 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2400 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2403 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2404 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2405 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2407 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2409 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2410 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2411 * Don't use debstd anymore
2413 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2415 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2418 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2419 contrib/non-free policy
2420 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2421 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2422 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2423 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2424 - new section about `Daemons'
2425 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2426 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2427 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2428 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2429 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2430 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2431 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2432 * SGML source code included in package
2433 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2435 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2437 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2440 - completely reworked structure
2441 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2442 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2443 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2444 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2445 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2446 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2447 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2448 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2449 - mention "orphaned packages"
2450 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2451 distributions' policy
2452 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2453 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2454 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2455 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2456 - added section about arch spec strings
2457 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2458 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2459 - added section about "menus"
2460 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2461 the new documentation policy soon
2462 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2463 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2465 - added section about editors and pagers
2466 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2467 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2468 - added section about device files
2469 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2470 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2471 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2473 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2474 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2475 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2476 - Added new section about obsolete names
2477 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2478 * Fixed package's description
2480 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2482 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2486 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2488 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2491 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2492 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2493 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2495 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2497 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2500 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2501 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2503 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2504 and upload it "byhand" too.
2506 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2508 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2512 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2513 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2514 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2515 functionality must not have the same name.
2516 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2517 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2518 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2519 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2520 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2521 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2522 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2524 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2525 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2526 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2527 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2528 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2529 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2530 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2531 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2534 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2536 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2538 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2540 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2541 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2542 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2543 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2544 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2547 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2549 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2551 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2553 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2554 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2555 description of deb file format.
2556 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2557 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2559 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2561 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2562 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2564 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2566 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2568 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2569 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2570 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2571 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2572 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2573 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2574 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2575 packages in section on Procedure
2576 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2577 a package maintainer
2578 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2579 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2580 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2582 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2583 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2584 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2585 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2586 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2587 on various shlib files
2588 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2589 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2590 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2592 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2594 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2596 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2597 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2598 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2600 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2601 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2602 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2603 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2604 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2606 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2608 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2610 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2612 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2614 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2615 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2616 compatibility go in contrib.
2618 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2619 instructions in policy manual.
2620 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2623 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2625 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2627 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2628 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2629 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2630 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2632 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2633 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2636 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2638 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2640 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2641 * More detail about changelog format names.
2643 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2644 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2648 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2650 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2652 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2654 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2656 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2658 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2660 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2662 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2663 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2664 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2666 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2668 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2670 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2672 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2674 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2678 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100