1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
11 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
12 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
13 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
14 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
16 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
17 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
18 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
19 Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
20 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
23 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
25 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
26 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
27 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
28 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
33 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
34 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
36 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
37 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
38 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
40 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
44 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
45 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
46 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
49 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
50 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
55 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
56 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
57 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
58 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
62 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:39:15 +0200
64 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
70 Closes: #459868, #581011
71 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
74 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
76 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
77 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
79 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
82 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
84 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
86 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
87 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
91 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
92 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
95 Closes: #501930, #593909
96 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
97 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
101 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
102 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
103 machine. (Closes: #591857)
104 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
105 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
106 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
107 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
108 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
109 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
110 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
111 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
112 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
113 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
115 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
116 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
117 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
118 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
119 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
120 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
121 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
122 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
123 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
124 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
125 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
126 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
127 than the version in oldstable.
128 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
129 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
130 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
131 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
132 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
133 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
134 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
135 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
136 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
137 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
138 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
139 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
140 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
141 package. (Closes: #609160)
143 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
145 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
154 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
158 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
159 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
168 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
173 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
178 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
183 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
186 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
188 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
189 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
191 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
193 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
194 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
199 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
205 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
206 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
210 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
211 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
215 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
216 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
220 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
221 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
225 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
235 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
237 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
238 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
239 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
240 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
241 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
242 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
243 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
244 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
245 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
247 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
248 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
249 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
250 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
251 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
252 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
254 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
256 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
262 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
265 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
266 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
267 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
268 and distribution license' (three times).
269 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
270 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
275 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
277 Proposed by Santiago Vila
278 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
290 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
291 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
295 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
297 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
302 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
303 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
306 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
309 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
312 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
318 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
322 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
336 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
341 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
347 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
348 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
349 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
352 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
353 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
358 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
359 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
363 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
364 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
365 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
366 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
367 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
368 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
369 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
370 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
371 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
372 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
373 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
374 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
375 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
376 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
377 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
378 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
379 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
380 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
381 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
382 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
383 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
384 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
385 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
386 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
387 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
388 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
389 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
390 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
391 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
392 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
393 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
394 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
396 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
398 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
400 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
404 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
406 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
407 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
411 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
414 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
415 Wording: Steve Langasek.
416 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
417 Seconded: Julien Cristau
418 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
421 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
422 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
423 Seconded: Russ Allbery
424 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
427 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
428 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
429 Seconded: Russ Allbery
431 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
432 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
433 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
434 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
435 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
436 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
437 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
438 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
441 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
442 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
443 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
444 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
445 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
446 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
447 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
449 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
450 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
451 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
452 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
453 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
454 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
455 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
458 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
459 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
460 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
461 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
462 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
464 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
467 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
471 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
472 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
475 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
477 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
485 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
489 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
494 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
495 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
498 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
499 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
501 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
507 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
508 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
512 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
513 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
517 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
522 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
523 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
527 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
528 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
532 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
533 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
534 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
535 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
536 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
537 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
538 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
539 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
540 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
541 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
542 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
543 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
544 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
545 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
546 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
548 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
549 Source field descriptions.
550 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
551 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
552 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
553 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
554 description says otherwise.
556 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
558 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
562 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
565 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
566 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
568 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
569 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
573 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
578 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
579 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
583 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
584 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
585 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
586 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
590 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
591 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
592 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
593 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
594 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
596 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
597 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
601 * Add myself to Uploaders.
604 * Add myself to Uploaders.
605 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
607 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
608 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
609 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
611 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
613 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
616 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
623 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
625 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
626 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
630 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
631 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
633 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
635 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
636 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
640 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
641 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
645 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
646 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
648 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
650 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
651 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
653 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
655 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
656 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
657 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
660 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
661 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
665 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
666 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
669 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
671 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
672 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
673 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
674 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
675 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
676 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
677 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
678 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
679 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
680 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
681 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
682 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
683 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
684 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
685 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
686 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
687 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
688 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
689 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
690 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
691 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
692 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
693 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
694 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
695 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
696 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
697 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
698 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
699 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
700 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
702 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
703 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
704 links was completed long ago.
705 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
707 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
709 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
712 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
714 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
716 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
719 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
720 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
721 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
722 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
723 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
724 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
725 Millan (Closes: #209008).
726 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
727 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
729 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
731 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
733 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
734 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
735 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
736 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
737 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
738 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
739 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
741 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
742 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
743 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
744 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
746 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
747 Küster (Closes: #403391).
748 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
749 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
750 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
751 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
752 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
753 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
757 Closes: #186700, #458910
758 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
759 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
763 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
764 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
765 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
766 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
767 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
768 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
769 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
771 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
772 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
774 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
775 * Add an md5sums control file.
776 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
777 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
778 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
779 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
780 currently part of policy.
781 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
782 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
783 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
786 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
788 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
791 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
792 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
793 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
794 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
795 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
796 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
797 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
798 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
799 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
800 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
801 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
802 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
803 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
804 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
805 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
807 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
809 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
810 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
811 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
813 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
814 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
815 list?" (Closes: #412634).
816 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
817 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
818 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
819 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
820 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
821 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
822 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
823 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
824 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
825 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
826 debconf specification.
827 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
828 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
830 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
832 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
835 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
836 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
837 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
838 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
843 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
844 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
845 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
846 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
848 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
849 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
850 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
851 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
852 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
853 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
854 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
855 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
856 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
857 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
858 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
859 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
860 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
862 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
863 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
868 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
869 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
870 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
872 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
873 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
874 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
876 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
878 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
881 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
882 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
884 Polo (Closes: #372497).
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
886 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
888 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
889 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
890 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
891 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
893 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
895 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
897 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
899 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
900 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
901 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
902 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
903 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
904 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
906 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
908 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
911 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
912 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
913 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
916 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
918 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
920 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
923 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
924 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
925 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
926 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
927 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
928 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
929 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
930 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
931 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
933 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
934 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
936 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
937 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
938 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
940 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
941 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
942 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
943 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
946 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
948 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
951 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
953 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
954 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
955 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
956 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
957 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
958 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
959 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
960 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
961 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
962 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
963 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
964 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
965 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
966 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
967 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
968 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
969 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
970 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
971 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
972 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
973 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
974 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
975 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
976 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
977 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
979 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
980 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
981 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
982 Hess (Closes: #362247).
983 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
984 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
985 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
986 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
987 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
988 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
989 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
990 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
991 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
992 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
993 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
994 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
996 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
997 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1000 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1002 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1003 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1004 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1005 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1006 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1007 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1008 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1009 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1011 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1013 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1017 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1019 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1021 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1022 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1023 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1025 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1026 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1027 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1031 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1033 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1034 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1035 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1036 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1038 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1039 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1040 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1041 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1042 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1043 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1044 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1045 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1046 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1048 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1051 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1053 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1056 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1057 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1058 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1060 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1061 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1063 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1065 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1067 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1071 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1072 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1073 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1074 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1076 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1077 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1078 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1079 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1081 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1082 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1083 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1085 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1086 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1087 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1089 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1090 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1091 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1093 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1094 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1095 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1096 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1098 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1099 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1100 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1101 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1103 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1104 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1105 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1108 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1109 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1110 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1112 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1113 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1114 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1116 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1117 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1118 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1119 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1120 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1121 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1122 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1123 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1125 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1127 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1131 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1132 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1133 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1134 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1135 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1136 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1137 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1138 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1140 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1141 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1142 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1143 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1144 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1145 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1146 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1147 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1148 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1149 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1150 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1151 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1153 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1154 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1155 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1159 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1160 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1163 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1164 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1165 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1167 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1168 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1169 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1170 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1171 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1172 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1174 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1175 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1177 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1178 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1179 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1180 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1181 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1182 Closes: #185943, #237049
1184 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1186 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1192 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1193 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1194 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1195 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1196 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1197 running. closes: Bug#187250
1198 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1199 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1200 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1201 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1202 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1203 user closes: Bug#176506
1205 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1207 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1211 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1212 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1213 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1214 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1215 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1216 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1217 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1218 deb-building toolchain.
1219 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1220 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1221 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1222 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1223 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1224 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1225 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1226 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1227 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1228 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1229 sections about changelog files.
1231 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1232 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1233 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1234 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1235 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1236 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1238 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1239 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1240 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1241 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1242 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1243 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1244 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1245 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1246 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1247 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1248 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1249 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1250 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1251 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1252 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1253 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1254 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1255 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1256 for the restructuring
1258 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1260 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1265 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1266 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1267 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1268 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1269 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1270 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1272 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1273 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1274 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1275 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1276 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1277 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1278 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1280 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1281 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1282 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1283 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1285 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1287 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1291 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1292 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1293 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1294 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1295 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1297 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1298 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1299 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1300 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1302 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1303 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1304 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1305 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1306 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1307 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1308 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1309 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1310 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1311 offtopic stuff, too.
1312 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1313 script should start it, closes: #60979
1314 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1315 "should", closes: #170019
1316 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1317 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1318 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1319 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1320 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1321 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1322 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1323 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1326 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1328 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1332 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1333 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1334 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1335 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1336 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1337 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1338 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1339 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1341 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1342 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1343 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1344 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1345 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1346 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1347 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1348 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1349 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1351 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1352 file, closes: Bug#65764
1354 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1356 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1359 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1360 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1361 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1362 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1363 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1364 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1365 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1366 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1367 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1368 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1369 details. closes: Bug#133030
1370 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1371 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1372 parts of Bug#161455.
1374 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1376 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1379 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1380 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1381 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1382 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1383 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1384 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1385 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1386 not. closes: Bug#139820
1387 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1388 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1389 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1390 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1391 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1392 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1393 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1394 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1395 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1396 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1398 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1400 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1401 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1402 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1403 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1404 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1405 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1406 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1407 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1408 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1409 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1410 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1411 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1412 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1413 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1414 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1415 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1416 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1417 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1418 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1419 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1421 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1422 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1423 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1424 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1425 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1426 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1427 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1429 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1430 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1431 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1432 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1433 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1434 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1435 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1436 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1437 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1439 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1441 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1444 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1445 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1446 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1447 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1448 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1449 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1450 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1451 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1452 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1453 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1454 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1455 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1456 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1457 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1458 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1459 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1460 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1461 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1462 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1463 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1464 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1465 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1467 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1469 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1472 medium, high, emergency.
1473 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1474 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1475 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1476 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1477 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1480 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1481 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1482 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1484 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1485 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1486 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1487 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1488 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1489 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1490 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1493 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1495 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1498 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1499 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1500 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1502 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1503 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1504 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1505 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1506 debian/rules to do this
1507 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1508 patches are incorporated upstream
1509 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1510 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1511 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1512 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1513 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1514 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1516 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1517 system closes: Bug#91249
1518 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1519 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1520 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1521 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1522 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1523 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1524 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1525 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1526 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1527 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1528 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1529 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1530 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1532 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1534 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1537 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1538 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1539 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1541 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1542 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1543 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1545 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1550 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1553 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1554 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1555 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1556 package for the time being
1557 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1558 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1559 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1560 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1561 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1562 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1563 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1564 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1565 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1566 Build-Depends arch syntax
1567 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1569 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1570 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1572 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1573 from policy maintenance duties.
1574 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1575 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1579 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1583 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1585 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1588 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1589 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1590 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1591 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1592 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1593 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1594 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1595 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1596 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1597 minor version number for this
1598 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1599 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1600 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1601 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1602 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1603 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1604 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1605 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1606 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1608 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1610 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1613 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1614 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1615 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1616 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1618 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1620 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1621 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1622 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1623 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1624 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1625 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1626 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1627 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1628 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1629 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1630 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1631 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1632 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1633 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1634 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1635 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1640 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1643 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1645 * Document the Enhances relationship
1646 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1647 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1648 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1649 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1650 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1651 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1653 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1655 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1656 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1657 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1658 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1660 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1661 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1662 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1663 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1664 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1666 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1668 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1671 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1672 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1674 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1675 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1676 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1677 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1678 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1679 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1680 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1681 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1682 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1684 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1686 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1688 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1691 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1692 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1693 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1694 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1695 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1696 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1697 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1698 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1699 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1700 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1701 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1702 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1703 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1704 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1705 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1706 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1707 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1708 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1709 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1710 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1711 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1713 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1714 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1716 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1718 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1721 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1722 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1723 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1724 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1725 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1726 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1727 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1728 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1729 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1730 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1731 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1732 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1733 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1734 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1735 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1736 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1737 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1738 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1739 list closes: Bug#53756
1740 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1741 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1742 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1743 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1744 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1745 policy closes: Bug#53760
1746 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1747 policy closes: Bug#53761
1748 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1749 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1750 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1751 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1752 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1753 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1754 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1755 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1756 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1757 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1758 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1760 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1761 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1762 to install with older fileutils.
1763 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1764 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1765 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1766 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1768 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1769 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1771 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1773 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1776 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1778 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1780 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1783 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1785 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1788 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1791 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1793 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1795 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1797 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1800 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1802 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1804 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1807 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1808 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1809 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1810 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1811 directoried (closes: #41547)
1812 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1813 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1814 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1815 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1816 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1817 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1818 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1819 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1820 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1821 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1822 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1824 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1825 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1826 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1827 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1828 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1829 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1830 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1832 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1833 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1834 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1835 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1837 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1839 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1841 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1842 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1844 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1846 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1849 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1851 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1853 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1856 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1858 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1859 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1860 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1861 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1862 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1863 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1864 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1865 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1866 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1867 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1868 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1869 this closes: Bug#38612
1870 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1871 before. closes: Bug#40864
1873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1875 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1878 officially uploaded.
1879 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1881 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1882 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1883 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1885 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1886 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1887 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1888 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1889 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1890 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1892 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1893 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1894 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1896 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1898 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1899 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1900 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1901 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1902 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1904 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1906 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1909 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1910 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1911 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1912 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1913 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1914 there). closes: Bug#34233
1915 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1916 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1917 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1918 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1919 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1921 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1923 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1926 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1927 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1928 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1931 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1932 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1933 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1934 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1935 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1938 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1939 number. closes: BUG#25911
1941 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1942 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1943 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1944 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1945 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1946 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1948 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1949 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1950 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1953 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1954 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1955 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1957 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1958 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1959 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1960 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1962 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1963 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1964 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1966 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1968 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1969 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1970 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1971 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1972 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1973 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1974 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1975 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1978 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1980 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1981 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1984 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1986 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1990 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1992 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1995 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1996 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1997 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1998 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1999 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2000 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2001 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2003 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2004 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2006 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2008 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2010 * non-maintainer release
2011 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2012 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2014 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2015 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2016 * no content changes
2017 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2019 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2021 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2025 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2027 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2031 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2032 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2033 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2035 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2036 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2038 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2039 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2040 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2041 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2043 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2044 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2045 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2046 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2047 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2048 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2049 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2051 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2052 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2053 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2056 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2057 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2058 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2060 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2061 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2062 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2064 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2065 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2067 * New version numbering scheme:
2069 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2070 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2071 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2074 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2075 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2076 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2077 differ between the manuals.
2079 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2080 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2081 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2082 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2084 * Packaging changes:
2086 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2087 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2089 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2091 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2093 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2097 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2098 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2099 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2101 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2102 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2105 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2106 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2107 file extension as the referenced file
2109 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2110 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2112 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2113 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2114 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2115 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2118 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2119 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2120 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2122 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2123 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2124 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2125 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2128 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2129 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2132 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2133 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2134 reasonable default configuration
2136 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2137 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2138 by all news servers and clients
2140 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2141 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2142 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2143 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2144 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2146 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2147 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2150 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2152 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2153 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2155 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2158 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2159 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2161 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2162 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2164 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2166 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2168 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2171 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2172 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2173 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2175 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2177 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2178 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2179 * Don't use debstd anymore
2181 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2183 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2186 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2187 contrib/non-free policy
2188 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2189 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2190 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2191 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2192 - new section about `Daemons'
2193 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2194 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2195 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2196 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2197 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2198 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2199 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2200 * SGML source code included in package
2201 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2203 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2205 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2208 - completely reworked structure
2209 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2210 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2211 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2212 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2213 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2214 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2215 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2216 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2217 - mention "orphaned packages"
2218 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2219 distributions' policy
2220 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2221 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2222 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2223 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2224 - added section about arch spec strings
2225 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2226 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2227 - added section about "menus"
2228 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2229 the new documentation policy soon
2230 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2231 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2233 - added section about editors and pagers
2234 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2235 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2236 - added section about device files
2237 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2238 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2239 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2241 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2242 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2243 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2244 - Added new section about obsolete names
2245 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2246 * Fixed package's description
2248 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2250 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2254 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2256 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2259 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2260 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2261 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2263 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2265 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2268 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2269 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2271 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2272 and upload it "byhand" too.
2274 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2276 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2280 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2281 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2282 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2283 functionality must not have the same name.
2284 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2285 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2286 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2287 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2288 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2289 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2290 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2292 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2293 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2294 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2295 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2296 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2297 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2298 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2299 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2302 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2304 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2306 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2308 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2309 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2310 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2311 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2312 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2315 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2317 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2319 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2321 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2322 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2323 description of deb file format.
2324 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2325 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2327 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2329 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2330 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2332 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2334 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2336 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2337 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2338 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2339 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2340 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2341 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2342 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2343 packages in section on Procedure
2344 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2345 a package maintainer
2346 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2347 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2348 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2350 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2351 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2352 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2353 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2354 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2355 on various shlib files
2356 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2357 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2358 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2360 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2362 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2364 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2365 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2366 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2368 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2369 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2370 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2371 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2372 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2374 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2376 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2378 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2380 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2382 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2383 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2384 compatibility go in contrib.
2386 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2387 instructions in policy manual.
2388 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2391 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2393 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2395 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2396 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2397 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2398 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2400 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2401 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2404 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2406 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2408 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2409 * More detail about changelog format names.
2411 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2412 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2416 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2418 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2420 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2422 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2424 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2426 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2428 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2430 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2431 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2432 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2434 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2436 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2438 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2440 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2442 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2446 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100