<author> Bill Allombert <email/ballombe@debian.org/ </author>
<author> Josip Rodin </author>
<author> Julian Gilbey </author>
- <author> Russ Allbery </author>
+ <author> Russ Allbery <email/rra@debian.org/ </author>
<author> Manoj Srivastava <email/srivasta@debian.org/
<chapt> About the checklist
<chapt> The checklist
-<sect id="3.9.3.0"> Version 3.9.3.0
+<sect id="3.9.5.0"> Version 3.9.5.0
<p>
Unreleased.
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag>
+ <item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now
+ mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.25, 5.8.1</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt> field is obsolete. Permissions
+ are now granted via <em>dak-commands</em> files.
+<tag>5.6.27</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-List</tt> field in Debian
+ source control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.28</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-Type</tt> field in source
+ package control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>debconf</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>escape</tt> capability is now documented.
+ </item>
+</taglist></p>
+
+<sect id="3.9.4.0"> Version 3.9.4.0
+<p>
+
+Released August, 2012.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>2.4</tag>
+ <item>New <em>tasks</em> archive section.
+ </item>
+<tag>4.9</tag>
+ <item><tt>build-arch</tt> and <tt>build-indep</tt> are now mandatory
+ targets in <file>debian/rules</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.26</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Vcs-*</tt> fields, which are
+ already in widespread use. Note the mechanism for specifying the Git
+ branch used for packaging in the Vcs-Git field.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.1</tag>
+ <item>The deprecated relations < and > now must not be used.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.8</tag>
+ <item>New <tt>Built-Using</tt> field, which must be used to document the
+ source packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this package
+ at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive meets license
+ requirements for providing source for all binaries.
+ </item>
+<tag>8.6</tag>
+ <item>Policy for dependencies between shared libraries and other
+ packages has been largely rewritten to document the <tt>symbols</tt>
+ system and more clearly document handling of shared library ABI
+ changes. <file>symbols</file> files are now recommended
+ over <file>shlibs</file> files in most situations. All maintainers of
+ shared library packages should review the entirety of this section.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1</tag>
+ <item>Packages must not assume the <file>/run</file> directory exists or
+ is usable without a dependency on <tt>initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3)</tt>
+ until the stable release of Debian supports <file>/run</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.7</tag>
+ <item>Packages including MIME configuration can now rely on triggers and
+ do not need to call update-mime.</item>
+<tag>9.11</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting general requirements for alternate init
+ systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.5</tag>
+ <item>All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
+ </item>
+</taglist></p>
+
+<sect id="3.9.3.0"> Version 3.9.3.0
+<p>
+
+Released February, 2012.
+
</p><p><taglist>
<tag>2.4</tag>
<item>New archive sections <em>education</em>, <em>introspection</em>,
now contain the value <tt>any all</tt> for source packages building both
architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages.
</item>
+<tag>7.1</tag>
+ <item>If a dependency is restricted to particular architectures, the
+ list of architectures must be non-empty.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1</tag>
+ <item><file>/run</file> is allowed as an exception to the FHS and
+ replaces <file>/var/run</file>. <file>/run/lock</file>
+ replaces <file>/var/lock</file>. The FHS requirements for the older
+ directories apply to these directories as well. Backward compatibility
+ links will be maintained and packages need not switch to
+ referencing <file>/run</file> directly yet. Files in <file>/run</file>
+ should be stored in a temporary file system.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.4</tag>
+ <item>New section spelling out the requirements for packages that use
+ files in <file>/run</file>, <file>/var/run</file>,
+ or <file>/var/lock</file>. This generalizes information previously only
+ in 9.3.2.
+ </item>
<tag>9.5</tag>
<item>Cron job file names must not contain <tt>.</tt> or <tt>+</tt> or
they will be ignored by cron. They should replace those characters
with <tt>_</tt>. If a package provides multiple cron job files in the
same directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly
- modified as above), <tt>-</tt>, and then some suitable prefix.
+ modified as above), <tt>-</tt>, and then some suitable suffix.
</item>
<tag>9.10</tag>
<item>Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore.
</item>
+<tag>10.7.4</tag>
+ <item>Packages that declare the same <tt>conffile</tt> may see left-over
+ configuration files from each other even if they conflict.
+ </item>
<tag>11.8</tag>
<item>The Policy rules around Motif libraries were just a special case
of normal rules for non-free dependencies and were largely obsolete, so
Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although
note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged).
</item>
+<tag>copyright-format</tag>
+ <item>Version 1.0 of the "Machine-readable <file>debian/copyright</file>
+ file" specification is included.
+ </item>
+<tag>mime</tag>
+ <item>This separate document has been retired and and its (short)
+ contents merged into Policy section 9.7. There are no changes to the
+ requirements.
+ </item>
<tag>perl</tag>
<item>Packages may declare an interest in the <var>perl-major-upgrade</var>
trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl.
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