<enumlist>
<item>Russ Allbery</item>
<item>Bill Allombert</item>
- <item>Andrew McMillan</item>
- <item>Manoj Srivastava</item>
- <item>Colin Watson</item>
+ <item>Andreas Barth</item>
+ <item>Jonathan Nieder</item>
</enumlist>
</p>
<p>
The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
- should be the details of the person uploading <em>this</em>
- version. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
- usual package maintainer.<footnote>
- If the developer uploading the package is not one of the usual
- maintainers of the package (as listed in
+ should be the details of the person who prepared this release of
+ the package. They are <em>not</em> necessarily those of the
+ uploader or usual package maintainer.<footnote>
+ In the case of a sponsored upload, the uploader signs the
+ files, but the changelog maintainer name and address are those
+ of the person who prepared this release. If the preparer of
+ the release is not one of the usual maintainers of the package
+ (as listed in
the <qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref>
or <qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref> control
fields of the package), the first line of the changelog is
This is an optional, recommended configuration file for the
<tt>uscan</tt> utility which defines how to automatically scan
ftp or http sites for newly available updates of the
- package. This is used
- by <url id="http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/"> and other Debian QA
+ package. This is used Debian QA
tools to help with quality control and maintenance of the
distribution as a whole.
</p>
<p>
The special value <tt>byhand</tt> for the section in a
<tt>.changes</tt> file indicates that the file in question
- is not an ordinary package file and must by installed by
+ is not an ordinary package file and must be installed by
hand by the distribution maintainers. If the section is
<tt>byhand</tt> the priority should be <tt>-</tt>.
</p>
exceptions to the FHS apply:
<enumlist>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The FHS requirement that architecture-independent
+ application-specific static files be located in
+ <file>/usr/share</file> is relaxed to a suggestion.
+
+ In particular, a subdirectory of <file>/usr/lib</file> may
+ be used by a package (or a collection of packages) to hold a
+ mixture of architecture-independent and
+ architecture-dependent files. However, when a directory is
+ entirely composed of architecture-independent files, it
+ should be located in <file>/usr/share</file>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<item>
<p>
The optional rules related to user specific
<footnote>
This is necessary in order to reserve the directories for
use in cross-installation of library packages from other
- architectures, as part of the planned deployment of
- <tt>multiarch</tt>.
+ architectures, as part of <tt>multiarch</tt>.
+ </footnote>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be
+ accessible through the search path
+ <file>/usr/include/</file> is amended, permitting files to
+ be accessible through the search path
+ <file>/usr/include/<var>triplet</var></file> where
+ <tt><var>triplet</var></tt> is as above. <footnote>
+ This is necessary for architecture-dependant headers
+ file to coexist in a <tt>multiarch</tt> setup.
</footnote>
</p>
<p>
kernel information.</footnote>
</p>
</item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The <file>/var/www</file> directory is additionally allowed.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The requirement for <file>/usr/local/lib<qual></file>
+ to exist if <file>/lib<qual></file> or
+ <file>/usr/lib<qual></file> exists (where
+ <file>lib<qual></file> is a variant of
+ <file>lib</file> such as <file>lib32</file> or
+ <file>lib64</file>) is removed.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<item>
<p>
On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional
</item>
<tag>65535:</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ This value <em>must not</em> be used, because it was
+ the error return sentinel value when <tt>uid_t</tt>
+ was 16 bits.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag>65536-4294967293:</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Dynamically allocated user accounts. By
+ default <prgn>adduser</prgn> will not allocate UIDs
+ and GIDs in this range, to ease compatibility with
+ legacy systems where <tt>uid_t</tt> is still 16
+ bits.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag>4294967294:</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <tt>(uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2)</tt> <em>must not</em> be
+ used, because it is used as the anonymous, unauthenticated
+ user by some NFS implementations.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag>4294967295:</tag>
<item>
<p>
<tt>(uid_t)(-1) == (gid_t)(-1)</tt> <em>must
renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, <em>both</em>
programs must be renamed.
</p>
-
+ <p>
+ Binary executables must not be statically linked with the GNU C
+ library, since this prevents the binary from benefiting from
+ fixes and improvements to the C library without being rebuilt
+ and complicates security updates. This requirement may be
+ relaxed for binary executables whose intended purpose is to
+ diagnose and fix the system in situations where the GNU C
+ library may not be usable (such as system recovery shells or
+ utilities like ldconfig) or for binary executables where the
+ security benefits of static linking outweigh the drawbacks.
+ </p>
<p>
By default, when a package is being built, any binaries
created should include debugging information, as well as
would point to <file>/srv/run</file> rather than the intended
target.
</footnote>
+ Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
</p>
<p>
<package>doc-base</package> package. If access to the
web document root is unavoidable then use
<example compact="compact">
-/var/www
+/var/www/html
</example>
as the Document Root. This might be just a symbolic
link to the location where the system administrator
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