X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=e4245cfc7f0efd4663a4402553ab4a734dd0ab43;hp=9ab0ee2cabe924385147170a8769ad555d69fe96;hb=HEAD;hpb=dc3d3111ce3361cf3f1093eda428c087f5f2a80b diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 9ab0ee2..e4245cf 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 @@ -34,23 +34,276 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist - Version 3.9.3.0 + Version 3.9.7.0

-Unreleased. +Released February, 2016.

+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. + +5.1 + Empty field values in control files are only permitted in the + debian/control file of a source package. + +4.9 + debian/rules: required targets must not attempt + network access. + +12.3 + recommend to ship additional documentation for package + pkg in a separate package pkg-doc and install it + into /usr/share/doc/pkg. +

+ + 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 +

+ +Released February, 2012. + +

+2.4 + New archive sections education, introspection, + and metapackages added. + 5.6.8 The Architecture field in *.dsc files may 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 + they have been removed. + +12.5 + debian/copyright is no longer required to list the + 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. + +virtual + ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} is renamed to + fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}. +

- Version 3.9.2.0 + Version 3.9.2.0

-Released April, 2010. +Released April, 2011.

* @@ -117,7 +370,7 @@ Released April, 2010.

- Version 3.9.1.0 + Version 3.9.1.0

Released July, 2010. @@ -214,7 +467,7 @@ Released July, 2010.

- Version 3.9.0.0 + Version 3.9.0.0

Released June, 2010. @@ -313,7 +566,7 @@ Released June, 2010.

- Version 3.8.4.0 + Version 3.8.4.0

Release Jan 2010. @@ -334,7 +587,7 @@ Release Jan 2010.

- Version 3.8.3.0 + Version 3.8.3.0

Released Aug 2009. @@ -390,7 +643,7 @@ Released Aug 2009.

- Version 3.8.2.0 + Version 3.8.2.0

Released Jun 2009. @@ -430,7 +683,7 @@ Released Jun 2009.

- Version 3.8.1.0 + Version 3.8.1.0

Released Mar 2009. @@ -488,7 +741,7 @@ Released Mar 2009.

- Version 3.8.0.0 + Version 3.8.0.0

Released Jun 2008. @@ -567,7 +820,7 @@ Released Jun 2008. Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names.

- Version 3.7.3.0 + Version 3.7.3.0

Released Dec 2007. @@ -609,7 +862,7 @@ Released Dec 2007. be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.

- Version 3.7.2.2 + Version 3.7.2.2

Released Oct 2006. @@ -619,7 +872,7 @@ Released Oct 2006. should to a must)

- Version 3.7.2.0 + Version 3.7.2.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -628,7 +881,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. 11.5 Revert the cgi-lib change.

- Version 3.7.1.0 + Version 3.7.1.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -648,7 +901,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. they do so, they must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0)

- Version 3.7.0.0 + Version 3.7.0.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -689,7 +942,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. is gone.

- Version 3.6.2.0 + Version 3.6.2.0

Released 2005 @@ -709,7 +962,7 @@ Released 2005

- Version 3.6.1.0 + Version 3.6.1.0

Released Aug 2003. @@ -720,7 +973,7 @@ Released Aug 2003. user prompts are now deprecated.

- Version 3.6.0 + Version 3.6.0

Released Jul 2003. @@ -764,7 +1017,7 @@ Released Jul 2003. target.

- Version 3.5.10 + Version 3.5.10

Released May 2003. @@ -779,7 +1032,7 @@ Released May 2003. Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives

- Version 3.5.9.0 + Version 3.5.9.0

Released Mar 2003. @@ -801,7 +1054,7 @@ Released Mar 2003. (rather than /usr/share/doc/package/examples).

- Version 3.5.8.0 + Version 3.5.8.0

Released Nov 2002. @@ -825,7 +1078,7 @@ Released Nov 2002. are still a bug.

- Version 3.5.7.0 + Version 3.5.7.0

Released Aug 2002. @@ -864,7 +1117,7 @@ Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding build rules, please see below

- Version 3.5.6.0 + Version 3.5.6.0

Released Jul 2001. @@ -889,7 +1142,7 @@ Released Jul 2001. there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic.

- Version 3.5.5.0 + Version 3.5.5.0

Released May 2001. @@ -943,7 +1196,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.4.0 + Version 3.5.4.0

Released Apr 2001.

@@ -951,7 +1204,6 @@ 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 @@ -960,7 +1212,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.3.0 + Version 3.5.3.0

Released Apr 2001

@@ -976,7 +1228,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.2.0 + Version 3.5.2.0

Released Feb 2001. @@ -988,7 +1240,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.1.0 + Version 3.5.1.0

Released Feb 2001. @@ -999,7 +1251,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.0.0 + Version 3.5.0.0

Released Jan 2001. @@ -1010,7 +1262,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.1.1 + Version 3.2.1.1

Released Jan 2001. @@ -1032,7 +1284,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.1.0 + Version 3.2.1.0

Released Aug 00. @@ -1044,7 +1296,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.0.0 + Version 3.2.0.0

Released Aug 00. @@ -1052,7 +1304,7 @@ 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 @@ -1095,7 +1347,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.1.1.0 + Version 3.1.1.0

Released Nov 1999. @@ -1106,7 +1358,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.1.0.0 + Version 3.1.0.0

Released Oct 1999. @@ -1161,7 +1413,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.0.1.0 + Version 3.0.1.0

Released Jul 1999. @@ -1173,7 +1425,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.0.0.0 + Version 3.0.0.0

Released Jun 1999. @@ -1218,7 +1470,7 @@ Released May 2001. Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date

- Version 2.5.0.0 + Version 2.5.0.0

Released Oct 1998. @@ -1257,7 +1509,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.4.1.0 + Version 2.4.1.0

Released Apr 1998.

@@ -1284,7 +1536,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.4.0.0 + Version 2.4.0.0

Released Jan 1998 @@ -1360,7 +1612,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 + Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0

Released Sep 1997. @@ -1377,7 +1629,7 @@ Policy Manual: MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile

- Version 2.2.0.0 + Version 2.2.0.0

Released July 1997. @@ -1404,7 +1656,7 @@ Policy Manual: app-defaults files may not be conffiles

- Version 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 + Version 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0

Released Mar 1997. @@ -1422,7 +1674,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 + Version 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0

Released Nov 1996. @@ -1430,7 +1682,7 @@ Policy Manual: Some changes WRT shared libraries

- Version 2.1.1.0 + Version 2.1.1.0

Released Sep 1996. @@ -1443,7 +1695,7 @@ without consultation Shared libraries must be installed stripped

- Version 2.1.0.0 + Version 2.1.0.0

Released Aug 1996.