X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=32293cd679f1fc060df1d602712ade5eca571c06;hp=41220a0424ca91663c61ab7a105901d08bb900c1;hb=b083c75f46a06d37393214ab94c7f5d6e698a0c4;hpb=96ba2dfcb00f5cfa50d7d5ea22a88cdfdd4ccbab diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 41220a0..32293cd 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Bill Allombert Josip Rodin Julian Gilbey - Russ Allbery + Russ Allbery Manoj Srivastava About the checklist @@ -34,10 +34,186 @@ 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 +

+ +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 + branch used for packaging in the Vcs-Git field. + +7.1 + The deprecated relations < and > now must not be used. + +7.8 + New Built-Using 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. + +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. + +

+ Version 3.9.3.0

-Unreleased. +Released February, 2012.

2.4 @@ -49,9 +225,39 @@ Unreleased. now contain the value any all for source packages building both architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages. +7.1 + If a dependency is restricted to particular architectures, the + list of architectures must be non-empty. + +9.1.1 + /run is allowed as an exception to the FHS and + replaces /var/run. /run/lock + replaces /var/lock. 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 /run directly yet. Files in /run + should be stored in a temporary file system. + +9.1.4 + New section spelling out the requirements for packages that use + files in /run, /var/run, + or /var/lock. This generalizes information previously only + in 9.3.2. + +9.5 + Cron job file names must not contain . or + or + they will be ignored by cron. They should replace those characters + with _. If a package provides multiple cron job files in the + same directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly + modified as above), -, and then some suitable suffix. + 9.10 Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore. +10.7.4 + Packages that declare the same conffile may see left-over + configuration files from each other even if they conflict. + 11.8 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 +268,15 @@ Unreleased. Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged). +copyright-format + Version 1.0 of the "Machine-readable debian/copyright + file" specification is included. + +mime + This separate document has been retired and and its (short) + contents merged into Policy section 9.7. There are no changes to the + requirements. + perl Packages may declare an interest in the perl-major-upgrade trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl. @@ -976,7 +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 @@ -1077,7 +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