+debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
+ to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
+ * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
+ /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
+ operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
+ * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
+ Allombert (Closes: #361418).
+ * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
+ Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
+ thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
+ * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
+ Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
+ * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
+ Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
+ and Marco d'Itri.
+ * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
+ virtual packages.
+ * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
+ thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
+ * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
+ (Closes: #431813).
+ * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
+ * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
+ list?" (Closes: #412634).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
+ files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
+ * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
+ templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
+ * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
+ specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
+ * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
+ (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
+ Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
+ * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
+ debconf specification.
+ * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
+ * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
+
+debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
+ Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
+ Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
+ * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
+ (Closes: #375728).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
+ (Closes: #376104).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
+ world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
+ * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
+ s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
+ quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
+ (Closes: #377215).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
+ /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
+ premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
+ actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
+ * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
+ Jackson (Closes: #379630).
+ * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
+ Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
+ * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
+ case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
+ the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
+ * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
+ prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
+ thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
+ (Closes: #379974).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
+ (Closes: #386178).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
+ exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
+ to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
+ thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
+ * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
+ package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
+ s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
+ like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
+ Polo (Closes: #372497).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
+ should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
+ (Closes: #372522).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
+ thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
+ * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
+ to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
+ Huehner (Closes: #366032).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
+ Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
+ to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
+ (Closes: #372148).
+ * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
+ thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
+ * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
+ thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
+ * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
+ Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Revert the cgi-lib change.
+ * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
+ Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
+ Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
+ (Closes: #328951).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
+ thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
+ when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
+ * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
+ to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
+ directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
+ static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
+ doing so. (Closes: #329762).
+ * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
+ Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
+ * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
+ (Closes: #364983).
+ * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
+ Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
+ clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
+ * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
+ Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
+ "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
+ Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
+ * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
+ (Closes: #365323).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
+ Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
+ Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
+ (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
+ debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
+ except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
+ may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
+ is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
+ allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
+ language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
+ * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
+ Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
+ * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
+ gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
+ interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
+ to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
+ licenses. (Closes: #355263).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
+ to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
+ legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
+ anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
+ have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
+ uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
+ it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
+ current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
+ (Closes: #357613).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
+ available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
+ * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
+ Hess (Closes: #362247).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
+ mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
+ thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
+ dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
+ dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
+ dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
+ some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
+ dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
+ on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
+ to be on. (Closes: #362975).
+ * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
+ provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
+ (Closes: #341232).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
+ redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
+ (Closes: #349010).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
+ upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
+ thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
+ dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
+ * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
+ Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
+ relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
+ http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Manoj ]
+ * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
+ Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
+ thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
+ thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
+ * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
+ Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
+ summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
+ * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
+ Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
+ (Closes: #334913).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
+ Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
+ unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
+ Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
+ to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
+ "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
+ section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
+ ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
+ thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
+ * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
+ Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
+ non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
+ (Closes: #315470).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
+
+debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
+ to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
+ * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
+ virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
+ (Closes: #313626).
+ * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
+ to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
+ virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Manoj:
+ * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
+ docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
+ Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
+ modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
+ thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
+ over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
+ constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
+ * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
+ (Closes: #260092).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
+ Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
+ section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
+ *
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
+ archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
+ Robinson (Closes: #284967).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
+ calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
+ and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
+ problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
+ (Closes: #286549).
+ * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
+ thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
+ suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
+ essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
+ (Closes: #291026).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
+ history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
+ directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
+ informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
+ to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
+ * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
+ binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
+ (Closes: #146023).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
+ Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
+ * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
+ thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
+ aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
+ images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
+ files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
+ when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
+ * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
+ Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
+ as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
+ * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
+ Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
+ spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Manoj:
+ * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
+ in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
+ * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
+ * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
+ * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
+ * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
+ incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
+ caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
+ included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
+ closes: Bug#202054
+ * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
+ version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
+ developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
+ packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
+ this section. closes: Bug#248618
+ * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
+ 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
+ * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
+ 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
+ Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
+ * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
+ Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
+ Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
+ * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
+ Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
+ (Closes: #252392).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
+ Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
+ * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
+ (Closes: #252086).
+ Josip:
+ * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
+ * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
+ footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
+ closes: #50565.
+ * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
+ to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
+ * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
+ * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
+ according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
+ * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
+ closes: #75508.
+ * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
+ source tarballs, closes: #79210.
+ Andi:
+ * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
+ * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
+ * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
+ * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
+ * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
+ Closes: #185943, #237049
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
+ closes: #193748.
+ Manoj:
+ * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
+ hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
+ * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
+ * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
+ --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
+ running. closes: Bug#187250
+ * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
+ the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
+ * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
+ removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
+ * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
+ user closes: Bug#176506
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
+ + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
+ sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
+ In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
+ fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
+ and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
+ is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
+ optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
+ deb-building toolchain.
+ + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
+ chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
+ Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
+ properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
+ + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
+ with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
+ everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
+ Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
+ talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
+ and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
+ sections about changelog files.
+ Manoj:
+ * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
+ * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
+ * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
+ wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
+ number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
+ bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
+ closes: Bug#174982
+ * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
+ resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
+ machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
+ * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
+ mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
+ * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
+ during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
+ * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
+ behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
+ way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
+ * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
+ been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
+ * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
+ consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
+ * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
+ * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
+ changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
+ * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
+ for the restructuring
+
+ -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
+
+debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
+ closes: #182792.
+ * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
+ confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
+ * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
+ * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
+ * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
+ * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
+ Manoj:
+ * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
+ extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
+ * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
+ Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
+ * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
+ changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
+ since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
+ closes: Bug#184518
+ * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
+ * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
+ footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
+ means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
+
+ -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
+
debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
Josip:
* Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
- the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022.
+ the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
* Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
- base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927.
+ base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
* Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
- closes: #174048.
+ closes: #174048
* Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
- Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209.
+ Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
* Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
- closes #103459.
- * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455.
+ closes: #103459
+ * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
* Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
- the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510.
+ the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
offtopic stuff, too.
* When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
- script should start it, closes: #60979.
-
- --
+ script should start it, closes: #60979
+ * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
+ "should", closes: #170019
+ * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
+ This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
+ in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
+ * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
+ that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
+ * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
+ imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
+ * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
+ closes: #183544
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
version.
* Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
from policy maintenance duties.
- * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
+ * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
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