X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=32293cd679f1fc060df1d602712ade5eca571c06;hp=233e8c2495de839fcd6d138036b913c07fbea6ca;hb=b083c75f46a06d37393214ab94c7f5d6e698a0c4;hpb=52ad20d192fa0583a5697031570693cc3bfe6d50 diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 233e8c2..32293cd 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml @@ -34,15 +34,143 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist + Version 3.9.7.0 +

+ +Released xxx, 2015. + +

+10.5 + Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory. + +9.2.2 + 32bit UIDs in the range 65536-4294967293 are reserved for dynamically + allocated user accounts. +

+ + Version 3.9.6.0 +

+ +Released September, 2014. + +

+9.1 + The FHS is relaxed to allow a subdirectory of /usr/lib + to hold a mixture of architecture-independent and architecture-dependent + files, though directories entirely composed of architecture-independent files + should be located in /usr/share. + +9.1 + The FHS requirement for /usr/local/lib64 to exist + if /lib64 or /usr/lib64 exists is removed. + +9.1 + An FHS exception has been granted for multiarch include files, + permitting header files to instead be installed to + /usr/include/triplet. + +10.1 + Binaries must not be statically linked with the GNU C library, + see policy for exceptions. + +4.4 + It is clarified that signature appearing in debian/changelog should be + the details of the person who prepared this release of the package. + +11.5 + The default web document root is now /var/www/html + +virtual + java1-runtime and java2-runtime are removed, + javaN-runtime and javaN-runtime-headless are added + for all N between 5 and 9. + +virtual + Added httpd-wsgi for WSGI capable HTTP servers. + +perl + Perl packages should use the %Config hash to locate module + paths instead of hardcoding paths in @INC. + +perl + Perl binary modules and any modules installed into + $Config{vendorarch} must depend on the relevant + perlapi-* package. +

+ + Version 3.9.5.0 +

+ +Released October, 2013. + +

+5.1 + Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character + (-), to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control + data files that were not properly unescaped. + +5.4, 5.6.24 + Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 are now + mandatory in .dsc files. + +5.6.25, 5.8.1 + The DM-Upload-Allowed field is obsolete. Permissions + are now granted via dak-commands files. +5.6.27 + New section documenting the Package-List field in Debian + source control files. + +5.6.28 + New section documenting the Package-Type field in source + package control files. + +5.6.29 + New section documenting the Dgit field in Debian + source control files. + +9.1.1.8 + The exception to the FHS for the /selinux was removed. + +10.7.3 + Packages should remove all obsolete configuration files without + local changes during upgrades. The dpkg-maintscript-helper + tool, available from the dpkg package since + Wheezy, can help with this. + +10.10 + 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. + +11.5.2 + Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from + /usr/share/doc/package. + +12.2 + Packages distributing Info documents should use + install-info's trigger, and do not need anymore + to depend on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info. + +debconf + The escape capability is now documented. + +virtual + mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder are removed. +

+ Version 3.9.4.0

-Unreleased. +Released August, 2012.

2.4 New tasks archive section. +4.9 + build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory + targets in debian/rules. + 5.6.26 New section documenting the Vcs-* fields, which are already in widespread use. Note the mechanism for specifying the Git @@ -57,11 +185,26 @@ Unreleased. at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive meets license requirements for providing source for all binaries. +8.6 + Policy for dependencies between shared libraries and other + packages has been largely rewritten to document the symbols + system and more clearly document handling of shared library ABI + changes. symbols files are now recommended + over shlibs files in most situations. All maintainers of + shared library packages should review the entirety of this section. + 9.1.1 Packages must not assume the /run directory exists or is usable without a dependency on initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3) until the stable release of Debian supports /run. +9.7 + Packages including MIME configuration can now rely on triggers and + do not need to call update-mime. +9.11 + New section documenting general requirements for alternate init + systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart. + 12.5 All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8. @@ -1048,7 +1191,6 @@ Released May 2001. 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 11.9; perl-policy The perl policy is now part of Debian policy @@ -1149,7 +1291,7 @@ Released May 2001. 10.1 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. 12.8 Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog