Add changelog for copyright-format changes

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

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index 41220a0424ca91663c61ab7a105901d08bb900c1..b62e5e0ecb03ea9312fdff8f7dc163123fd43ac9 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -49,9 +49,39 @@ Unreleased.
   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.
+  </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
@@ -62,6 +92,10 @@ Unreleased.
   Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although
   note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged).
   </item>
+<tag>mime</tag>
+  <item>Retire this separate document and merge its (short) contents 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.