* Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be

Author: srivasta
Date: 2002/11/15 01:45:32
  * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
obsolete base section (I assume it is)                   closes: Bug#53582
* Rearranged the virtual packages list.                    closes: bug#72980

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-150

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b222419aafab9dd54a1a6ceb17d3909daf263e92..d5080a4be8c443e56020a396fd06c9faf5910547 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
     postsint.                                                closes: Bug#120585
+  * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
+    obsolete base section (I assume it is)                   closes: Bug#53582
+  * Rearranged the virtual packages list.                    closes: bug#72980
 
- -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:04:50 -0600
+ --
 
 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bda4d752cf66d921f61ef5e44cf87e09b934264b..c691f08da27868cdfeea329331c57937d21b71f0 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ Build-Depends-Indep: links, debiandoc-sgml (>= 1.1.47), sp, liburi-perl, libpape
 Package: debian-policy
 Architecture: all
 Suggests: doc-base
-Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0)
 Conflicts: dpkg-dev (<< 1.4.0.9), doc-base (<< 0.6), packaging-manual
 Replaces: packaging-manual
 Description: Debian Policy Manual and related documents

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 583cac08f628e4d0c8ab04b6015a5d4706d844cd..b9bc23167f5fe75bc098d93e856b3f56153a491a 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -959,11 +959,10 @@
 
 
        <sect1>
-         <heading>Base packages</heading>
+         <heading>Base system</heading>
 
          <p>
-           The packages included in the <tt>base</tt> section have a
-           special function. They form a minimum subset of the Debian
+           The  <tt>base system</tt> is a minimum subset of the Debian
            GNU/Linux system that is installed before everything else
            on a new system. Thus, only very few packages are allowed
            to go into the <tt>base</tt> section to keep the required
@@ -974,11 +973,8 @@
            <tt>required</tt> or at least <tt>important</tt>, and many
            of them will be tagged <tt>essential</tt> (see below).</p>
 
-         <p>
-           You must not place any packages into the <tt>base</tt>
-           section before this has been discussed on the
-           <tt>debian-devel</tt> mailing list and a consensus about
-           doing that has been reached.</p></sect1>
+         
+       </sect1>
 
 
        <sect1>

diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt
index 35be9ca0b4481530c4525a7ba03341cdeb697550..89664f47ce6eb516aebf142b1fcbc3e35437ef6f 100644 (file)
--- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt
+++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt
@@ -88,10 +88,6 @@ lambdamoo-server        Anything running a moo using a lambdamoo-core
 libc-dev                Anything that provides header and object files
                         of `libc'
 man-browser             Anything that can read man pages
-pdf-preview             Any preprocessor that creates PDF output
-pdf-viewer              Anything that can display PDF files
-postscript-preview      Any preprocessor that creates Postscript output
-postscript-viewer       Anything that can display Postscript files
 radius-server           Any package that provides a RADIUS server for acct/auth
 rsh-client              Any package that provides an rsh client
 rsh-server              Any package that provides an rsh server
@@ -126,6 +122,10 @@ audio-mixer:            Utility to control the input and output levels
                         of a sound card, with a tty interface
 x-audio-mixer:          Utility to control the input and output levels
                         of a sound card, X Window system interface
+pdf-preview             Any preprocessor that creates PDF output
+pdf-viewer              Anything that can display PDF files
+postscript-preview      Any preprocessor that creates Postscript output
+postscript-viewer       Anything that can display Postscript files
 
 Java and virtual machines
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