Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)

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

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 113429b0f7f5ea1e261524d27e8cfd19ff742acf..f4e428149dad17f7477142466ca9279b32c31522 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2367,8 +2367,7 @@ endif
           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>
@@ -2542,7 +2541,7 @@ endif
          composed of US-ASCII characters excluding control characters,
          space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges 33-57 and
          59-126, inclusive).  Field names must not begin with the comment
-         character, <tt>#</tt>.
+         character, <tt>#</tt>, nor with the hyphen character, <tt>-</tt>.
        </p>
 
        <p>
@@ -9009,8 +9008,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
                  package is purged.
              </item>
            </list>
-           Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
-           removed by the package during upgrade.
+           Obsolete configuration files without local changes should be
+           removed by the package during upgrade.<footnote>
+             The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn> tool, available from the
+             <package>dpkg</package> package, can help for this task.</footnote>
          </p>
 
          <p>
@@ -9696,15 +9697,16 @@ done
                Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the
                directory
                <example compact="compact">
-/usr/lib/cgi-bin/<var>cgi-bin-name</var>
+/usr/lib/cgi-bin
                </example>
-               or a subdirectory of that directory, and should be
-               referred to as
+               or a subdirectory of that directory, and the script
                <example compact="compact">
-http://localhost/cgi-bin/<var>cgi-bin-name</var>
+/usr/lib/cgi-bin/.../<var>cgi-bin-name</var>
+               </example>
+               should be referred to as
+               <example compact="compact">
+http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../<var>cgi-bin-name</var>
                </example>
-               (possibly with a subdirectory name
-               before <var>cgi-bin-name</var>).
            </item>
 
            <item>