Changelog and upgrading-checklist for named pipe requirement

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c29eb9490f3fa3a4ae881d7cc2ca281e760d4d31..76603fb238393f8165b5b13ad4d5c47697464440 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-debian-policy (3.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+debian-policy (3.8.4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   [ Bill Allombert ]
   * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ debian-policy (3.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
 
   [ Russ Allbery ]
+  * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
+    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
   * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
     avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords.  Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
     (Closes: #552757)

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.html b/upgrading-checklist.html
index fdae5c94c5ea53b405fd0b3fd3b21288774ee7c2..79524379b1ac00faf2f31a8c3cc8b789a40c875e 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.html
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.html
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ lang="en" xml:lang="en">
 <title>Policy checklist for upgrading your packages</title>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
 <meta name="generator" content="Org-mode"/>
-<meta name="generated" content="2009-10-13 11:05:38 CDT"/>
+<meta name="generated" content="2009-11-12 17:10:20 PST"/>
 <meta name="author" content="Bill Allombert, Josip Rodin, Julian Gilbey, Russ Allbery, and Manoj Srivastava"/>
 <meta name="description" content=""/>
 <meta name="keywords" content=""/>
@@ -164,13 +164,33 @@ picking your way through this list.
 </div>
 
 <div id="outline-container-2.1" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.1"><a name="v3.8.3.0" id="v3.8.3.0"></a>3.8.3.0 </h4>
+<h4 id="sec-2.1"><a name="v3.8.4.0" id="v3.8.4.0"></a>3.8.4.0 </h4>
 <div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.1">
 
 
 <p>
-Released Aug, 2009.
-</p><ul>
+Unreleased.
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<b>10.6</b> : Explicitly state that packages may not contain named pipes and
+should instead create them in postinst and remove them in prerm or postrm.
+
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div id="outline-container-2.2" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.2"><a name="v3.8.3.0" id="v3.8.3.0"></a>3.8.3.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.2">
+
+
+<p>
+Released Aug 2009.
+</p>
+<ul>
 <li>
 <b>4.9</b> : Add DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables and
 recommend them over GNU-style variables for that information.
@@ -225,9 +245,9 @@ Depend and Build-Depend on perl &gt;= 5.6.0-16 has been removed.
 
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-<h4 id="sec-2.2"><a name="v3.8.2.0" id="v3.8.2.0"></a>3.8.2.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.2">
+<div id="outline-container-2.3" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.3"><a name="v3.8.2.0" id="v3.8.2.0"></a>3.8.2.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.3">
 
 
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@@ -271,9 +291,9 @@ common-licenses and should be referenced from there.
 
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+<div id="outline-container-2.4" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.4"><a name="v3.8.1.0" id="v3.8.1.0"></a>3.8.1.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.4">
 
 
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@@ -336,9 +356,9 @@ mode 660, owned by user, and group mail.
 
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-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.4">
+<div id="outline-container-2.5" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.5"><a name="v3.8.0.0" id="v3.8.0.0"></a>3.8.0.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.5">
 
 
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@@ -438,9 +458,9 @@ explain why.
 
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+<div id="outline-container-2.6" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.6"><a name="v3.7.3.0" id="v3.7.3.0"></a>3.7.3.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.6">
 
 
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@@ -496,9 +516,9 @@ be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.
 
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+<h4 id="sec-2.7"><a name="v3.7.2.2" id="v3.7.2.2"></a>3.7.2.2 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.7">
 
 
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+<h4 id="sec-2.8"><a name="v3.7.2.0" id="v3.7.2.0"></a>3.7.2.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.8">
 
 
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+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.9">
 
 
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@@ -562,9 +582,9 @@ must  pre-depend on x11-common (&gt;= 1:7.0.0)
 
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@@ -617,9 +637,9 @@ live in <i>usr/share/fonts/X11</i> now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
 
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+<li id="sec-2.33.2">Packaging Manual: <br/>
 <ul>
 <li>
 Updated prefix of chapter 12, Shared Libraries:
@@ -1452,9 +1472,9 @@ installs shared libraries
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.33" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.33"><a name="v2.4.0.0" id="v2.4.0.0"></a>2.4.0.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.33">
+<div id="outline-container-2.34" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.34"><a name="v2.4.0.0" id="v2.4.0.0"></a>2.4.0.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.34">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1593,9 +1613,9 @@ non-X games
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.34" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.34"><a name="v2.3.0" id="v2.3.0"></a>2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.34">
+<div id="outline-container-2.35" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.35"><a name="v2.3.0" id="v2.3.0"></a>2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.35">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1621,9 +1641,9 @@ MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.35" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.35"><a name="v2.2.0.0" id="v2.2.0.0"></a>2.2.0.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.35">
+<div id="outline-container-2.36" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.36"><a name="v2.2.0.0" id="v2.2.0.0"></a>2.2.0.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.36">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1671,9 +1691,9 @@ app-defaults files may not be conffiles
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.36" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.36"><a name="v2.1.3" id="v2.1.3"></a>2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.36">
+<div id="outline-container-2.37" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.37"><a name="v2.1.3" id="v2.1.3"></a>2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.37">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1706,9 +1726,9 @@ Libraries should be stripped with "strip &ndash;strip-unneeded"
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.37" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.37"><a name="v2.1.2" id="v2.1.2"></a>2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.37">
+<div id="outline-container-2.38" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.38"><a name="v2.1.2" id="v2.1.2"></a>2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.38">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1724,9 +1744,9 @@ Some changes WRT shared libraries
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.38" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.38"><a name="v2.1.1" id="v2.1.1"></a>2.1.1.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.38">
+<div id="outline-container-2.39" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.39"><a name="v2.1.1" id="v2.1.1"></a>2.1.1.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.39">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1750,9 +1770,9 @@ Shared libraries must be installed stripped
 
 </div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-2.39" class="outline-4">
-<h4 id="sec-2.39"><a name="v2.1.0.0" id="v2.1.0.0"></a>2.1.0.0 </h4>
-<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.39">
+<div id="outline-container-2.40" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-2.40"><a name="v2.1.0.0" id="v2.1.0.0"></a>2.1.0.0 </h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-2.40">
 
 
 <p>
@@ -1770,8 +1790,8 @@ Upstream changelog must be installed too
 <p class="author"> Author: Bill Allombert, Josip Rodin, Julian Gilbey, Russ Allbery, and Manoj Srivastava
 <a href="mailto:srivasta@debian.org">&lt;srivasta@debian.org&gt;</a>
 </p>
-<p class="date"> Date: 2009-10-13 11:05:38 CDT</p>
-<p class="creator">HTML generated by org-mode 6.31trans in emacs 23</p>
+<p class="date"> Date: 2009-11-12 17:10:20 PST</p>
+<p class="creator">HTML generated by org-mode 6.32b in emacs 23</p>
 </div>
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diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.org b/upgrading-checklist.org
index 05ba2e26fe893d68c6bcf0c39eba29db799fab00..100b6fbaffed99bddf7fdad1d85981224f6486e9 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.org
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.org
@@ -56,13 +56,25 @@ picking your way through this list.
 
 ** The checklist
 
+*** 3.8.4.0
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: v3.8.4.0
+:END:
+#<<v3.8.4.0>>
+
+Unreleased.
+
++ *10.6* : Explicitly state that packages may not contain named pipes and
+  should instead create them in postinst and remove them in prerm or postrm.
+
 *** 3.8.3.0
 :PROPERTIES:
 :CUSTOM_ID: v3.8.3.0
 :END:
 #<<v3.8.3.0>>
 
-  Released Aug, 2009.
+Released Aug 2009.
+
 + *4.9* : Add DEB\_*\_ARCH\_CPU and DEB\_*\_ARCH\_OS variables and
   recommend them over GNU-style variables for that information.
 + *5.6.8*: Source package Architecture fields may contain /all/ in

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.txt b/upgrading-checklist.txt
index 1e31fab8a1b399a17d7049cdbbebb2abaa50353c..6b64ae478dc87fd9953cf81b938225c7cfb63893 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.txt
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
              ============================================
 
 Author: Bill Allombert, Josip Rodin, Julian Gilbey, Russ Allbery, and Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
-Date: 2009-10-13 11:05:42 CDT
+Date: 2009-11-12 17:12:18 PST
 
 
 About the checklist 
@@ -32,10 +32,19 @@ picking your way through this list.
 The checklist 
 ==============
 
+3.8.4.0 
+--------
+
+Unreleased.
+
++ *10.6* : Explicitly state that packages may not contain named pipes and
+  should instead create them in postinst and remove them in prerm or postrm.
+
 3.8.3.0 
 --------
 
-  Released Aug, 2009.
+Released Aug 2009.
+
 + *4.9* : Add DEB\_*\_ARCH\_CPU and DEB\_*\_ARCH\_OS variables and
   recommend them over GNU-style variables for that information.
 + *5.6.8*: Source package Architecture fields may contain /all/ in