Merge branch 'master' into bug504880-rra

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 774c8225313222a6420ae457c5a07f2667053583..ec605c60662682d4ae3e690d40e8a8841b7d0ce9 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@
 
       </sect>
 
-      <sect>
+      <sect id="dependencies">
        <heading>Dependencies</heading>
 
        <p>
@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@ Package: libc6
            <item><qref id="f-Source"><tt>Source</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
            <item><qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
            <item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
-           <item><qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed"<tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></qref></item>
+           <item><qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed"><tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></qref></item>
            <item><qref id="f-Section"><tt>Section</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
            <item><qref id="f-Priority"><tt>Priority</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
            <item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
@@ -2671,7 +2671,7 @@ Package: libc6
          <item><qref id="f-Version"><tt>Version</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
          <item><qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
          <item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
-         <item><qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed"<tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></qref></item>
+         <item><qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed"><tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></qref></item>
          <item><qref id="f-Homepage"><tt>Homepage</tt></qref></item>
          <item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
          <item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
@@ -4895,6 +4895,13 @@ Build-Depends: foo [linux-any], bar [any-i386], baz [!linux-any]
                installation would hamper the ability of the system to
                continue with any upgrade that might be in progress.
              </p>
+
+             <p>
+               You should not specify a <tt>Pre-Depends</tt> entry for a
+               package before this has been discussed on the
+               <tt>debian-devel</tt> mailing list and a consensus about
+               doing that has been reached.  See <ref id="dependencies">.
+             </p>
            </item>
          </taglist>
        </p>
@@ -6148,13 +6155,13 @@ install -m644 debian/shlibs.<var>package</var> debian/<var>package</var>/DEBIAN/
                   <file>/lib/<var>triplet</var></file> and
                   <file>/usr/lib/<var>triplet</var></file>, where
                   <tt><var>triplet</var></tt> is the value returned by
-                  <tt>dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE</tt> for the
+                  <tt>dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH</tt> for the
                   architecture of the package.  Packages may <em>not</em>
                   install files to any <var>triplet</var> path other
                   than the one matching the architecture of that package;
                   for instance, an <tt>Architecture: amd64</tt> package
                   containing 32-bit x86 libraries may not install these
-                  libraries to <file>/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu</file>.
+                  libraries to <file>/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu</file>.
                   <footnote>
                     This is necessary in order to reserve the directories for
                     use in cross-installation of library packages from other
@@ -9061,9 +9068,9 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
 
               <item>
                   If the window manager complies with <url
-                   id="http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec"
+                   id="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/wm-spec"
                    name="The Window Manager Specification Project">,
-                  written by the <url id="http://www.freedesktop.org/"
+                  written by the <url id="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
                    name="Free Desktop Group">, add 40 points.
               </item>