Prohibit deprecated < and > relations

Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Closes: #663918
Also minorly reword this section for clarity.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b68bf3d41c0311c988025e329c0135b4ea688d54..1d3037c61f69e510fd7c04c14a6db55d7bcbf0b5 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ debian-policy (3.9.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
     Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
     Closes: #661933
+  * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
+    Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+    Closes: #663918
 
  -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:30:33 -0700
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4fd60d909ecebd4653601bd57fefe098a5cbe656..52dbb26aabe2dc7a8444aa07ff961154b65de073 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -4607,13 +4607,13 @@ fi
 
        <p>
          The relations allowed are <tt>&lt;&lt;</tt>, <tt>&lt;=</tt>,
-         <tt>=</tt>, <tt>&gt;=</tt> and <tt>&gt;&gt;</tt> for
-         strictly earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or
-         equal and strictly later, respectively.  The deprecated
-         forms <tt>&lt;</tt> and <tt>&gt;</tt> were used to mean
-         earlier/later or equal, rather than strictly earlier/later,
-         so they should not appear in new packages (though
-         <prgn>dpkg</prgn> still supports them).
+         <tt>=</tt>, <tt>&gt;=</tt> and <tt>&gt;&gt;</tt> for strictly
+         earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and
+         strictly later, respectively.  The deprecated
+         forms <tt>&lt;</tt> and <tt>&gt;</tt> were confusingly used to
+         mean earlier/later or equal, rather than strictly earlier/later,
+         and must not appear in new packages (though <prgn>dpkg</prgn>
+         still supports them with a warning).
        </p>
 
        <p>

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index b6b4083b176e824c5e9cff843e20aadf745b3ec7..7527e53c93273aa63de2db65762a024898d27677 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ picking your way through this list.
 Unreleased.
 
 </p><p><taglist>
+<tag>7.1</tag>
+  <item>The deprecated relations &lt; and &gt; now must not be used.
+  </item>
 <tag>12.5</tag>
   <item>All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
   </item>