Title: Debian Menu Policy Manual
Author: The Debian Policy Mailing list
Abstract: This manual describes the policy requirements for the Menu
- system in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, describing the
+ system in the Debian distribution, describing the
hierarchical structure of the menu sections.
Section: Debian
Title: Debian MIME Policy Manual
Author: The Debian Policy Mailing list
Abstract: This manual describes the policy requirements for the MIME
- system in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, describing the rules
+ system in the Debian distribution, describing the rules
regulating the registration of programs that can handle MIME
content.
Section: Debian
Title: Debian Perl Policy Manual
Author: The Debian Policy Mailing list
Abstract: This manual describes the policy requirements for the Perl
- system in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, describing the rules
+ system in the Debian distribution, describing the rules
regulating the building and installation of packages providing and
using Perl and Perl modules.
Section: Debian
Title: Debian Policy Manual
Author: The Debian Policy Mailing list
Abstract: This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution. This includes the structure and contents of
+ distribution. This includes the structure and contents of
the Debian archive, several design issues of the operating system, as
well as technical requirements that each package must satisfy to be
included in the distribution.
the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
+ * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
+ Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
+ from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
* Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
* Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
-Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
-your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, or
+your Debian system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2, or
with the dpkg source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301 USA
<abstract>
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Menu
- system used in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. This
+ system used in the Debian distribution. This
document is part of the policy package for Debian.
</abstract>
</p>
<p>
A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
- <tt>/usr/doc/copyright/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
+ <tt>/usr/doc/copyright/GPL</tt> in the Debian
distribution or on the World Wide Web at
<url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
name="The GNU General Public Licence">. You can also obtain it by writing to the
]>
<debiandoc>
<!--
- Debian GNU/Linux Menu Sub-Policy Manual.
+ Debian Menu Sub-Policy Manual.
Copyright (C)1999 ;
released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version
<abstract>
This manual describes the policy requirements for the MIME support
- system used in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. This
+ system used in the Debian distribution. This
document is part of the policy package for Debian. The policy
package itself is maintained by a group of maintainers that
have no editorial powers. At the moment, the list of
<p>
A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
<tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at <url
+ distribution or on the World Wide Web at <url
id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" name="The GNU
General Public Licence">. You can also obtain it by writing
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth
<abstract>
This document describes the packaging of Perl within the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution and the policy requirements for packaged
+ distribution and the policy requirements for packaged
Perl programs and modules.
</abstract>
</p>
<p>
A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
- <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
+ <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian
distribution or on the World Wide Web at
<url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
name="The GNU Public Licence">.
<abstract>
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution. This includes the structure and
+ distribution. This includes the structure and
contents of the Debian archive and several design issues of
the operating system, as well as technical requirements that
each package must satisfy to be included in the distribution.
<p>
A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
- <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</file> in the Debian GNU/Linux
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</file> in the Debian
distribution or on the World Wide Web at
<url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
name="the GNU General Public Licence">. You can also
<heading>Scope</heading>
<p>
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian
- GNU/Linux distribution. This includes the structure and
+ distribution. This includes the structure and
contents of the Debian archive and several design issues of the
operating system, as well as technical requirements that
each package must satisfy to be included in the
<heading>The Debian Archive</heading>
<p>
- The Debian GNU/Linux system is maintained and distributed as a
+ The Debian system is maintained and distributed as a
collection of <em>packages</em>. Since there are so many of
them (currently well over 15000), they are split into
<em>sections</em> and given <em>priorities</em> to simplify
</p>
<p>
- The <em>main</em> archive area forms the <em>Debian GNU/Linux
- distribution</em>.
+ The <em>main</em> archive area forms the <em>Debian distribution</em>.
</p>
<p>
<heading>Binary packages</heading>
<p>
- The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is based on the Debian
+ The Debian distribution is based on the Debian
package management system, called <prgn>dpkg</prgn>. Thus,
all packages in the Debian distribution must be provided
in the <tt>.deb</tt> file format.
<p>
The <tt>base system</tt> is a minimum subset of the Debian
- GNU/Linux system that is installed before everything else
+ system that is installed before everything else
on a new system. Only very few packages are allowed to form
part of the base system, in order to keep the required disk
usage very small.
<p>
Packages in the <em>contrib</em> or <em>non-free</em> archive
areas should state in the copyright file that the package is not
- part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and briefly explain
- why.
+ part of the Debian distribution and briefly explain why.
</p>
<p>
<prgn>dpkg</prgn> is a suite of programs for creating binary
package files and installing and removing them on Unix
systems.<footnote>
- <prgn>dpkg</prgn> is targeted primarily at Debian
- GNU/Linux, but may work on or be ported to other
- systems.
+ <prgn>dpkg</prgn> is targeted primarily at Debian, but may
+ work on or be ported to other systems.
</footnote>
</p>