<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="3.9.7.0"> Version 3.9.7.0
+<p>
+
+Released February, 2016.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>10.5</tag>
+ <item> Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.2.2</tag>
+ <item> 32bit UIDs in the range 65536-4294967293 are reserved for dynamically
+ allocated user accounts.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item> Empty field values in control files are only permitted in the
+ <file>debian/control</file> file of a source package.
+ </item>
+<tag>4.9</tag>
+ <item> <file>debian/rules</file>: required targets must not attempt
+ network access.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.3</tag>
+ <item> recommend to ship additional documentation for package
+ <prgn>pkg</prgn> in a separate package <prgn>pkg-doc</prgn> and install it
+ into <file>/usr/share/doc/pkg</file>.
+ </item> </taglist></p>
+
+<sect id="3.9.6.0"> Version 3.9.6.0
+<p>
+
+Released September, 2014.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item> The FHS is relaxed to allow a subdirectory of <file>/usr/lib</file>
+ to hold a mixture of architecture-independent and architecture-dependent
+ files, though directories entirely composed of architecture-independent files
+ should be located in <file>/usr/share</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item>The FHS requirement for <file>/usr/local/lib64</file> to exist
+ if <file>/lib64</file> or <file>/usr/lib64</file> exists is removed.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item> An FHS exception has been granted for multiarch include files,
+ permitting header files to instead be installed to
+ <file>/usr/include/triplet</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.1</tag>
+ <item> Binaries must not be statically linked with the GNU C library,
+ see policy for exceptions.
+ </item>
+<tag>4.4</tag>
+ <item> It is clarified that signature appearing in debian/changelog should be
+ the details of the person who prepared this release of the package.
+ </item>
+<tag>11.5</tag>
+ <item> The default web document root is now <file>/var/www/html</file>
+ </item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item><tt>java1-runtime</tt> and <tt>java2-runtime</tt> are removed,
+ <tt>javaN-runtime</tt> and <tt>javaN-runtime-headless</tt> are added
+ for all N between 5 and 9.
+ </item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item>Added <tt>httpd-wsgi</tt> for WSGI capable HTTP servers.
+ </item>
+<tag>perl</tag>
+ <item> Perl packages should use the <tt>%Config</tt> hash to locate module
+ paths instead of hardcoding paths in <tt>@INC</tt>.
+ </item>
+<tag>perl</tag>
+ <item> Perl binary modules and any modules installed into
+ <tt>$Config{vendorarch}</tt> must depend on the relevant
+ <package>perlapi-*</package> package.
+ </item> </taglist></p>
+
+<sect id="3.9.5.0"> Version 3.9.5.0
+<p>
+
+Released October, 2013.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character
+ (<tt>-</tt>), to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control
+ data files that were not properly unescaped.
+ </item>
+<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>5.6.29</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Dgit</tt> field in Debian
+ source control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1.8</tag>
+ <item>The exception to the FHS for the <file>/selinux</file> was removed.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.7.3</tag>
+ <item>Packages should remove all obsolete configuration files without
+ local changes during upgrades. The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn>
+ tool, available from the <package>dpkg</package> package since
+ <em>Wheezy</em>, can help with this.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.10</tag>
+ <item>The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
+ must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII when possible.
+ In the system PATH, they must be restricted to ASCII.
+ </item>
+<tag>11.5.2</tag>
+ <item>Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from
+ <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.2</tag>
+ <item>Packages distributing Info documents should use
+ <package>install-info</package>'s trigger, and do not need anymore
+ to depend on <tt>dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info</tt>.
+ </item>
+<tag>debconf</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>escape</tt> capability is now documented.
+ </item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item><tt>mp3-decoder</tt> and <tt>mp3-encoder</tt> are removed.</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>
-Unreleased.
+Released February, 2012.
</p><p><taglist>
<tag>2.4</tag>
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.
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>Retire this separate document and merge its (short) contents into
- Policy section 9.7. There are no changes to the requirements.
+ <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>
<item>The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
/var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
- details in
</item>
<tag>11.9; perl-policy</tag>
<item>The perl policy is now part of Debian policy
<tag>10.1</tag>
<item>By default executables should not be built with the debugging
option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
- package with debugging information optionally. Details in
+ package with debugging information optionally.
</item>
<tag>12.8</tag>
<item>Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog
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