Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:33:04 +0000 (05:33 +0000)]
* Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
Author: srivasta
Date: 2002/03/14 18:17:48
* Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
* ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
* Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
* Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
* Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
* fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
* Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
* Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
* Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
* While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
* Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
* Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
* Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:32:34 +0000 (05:32 +0000)]
* Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/07/25 03:26:48
* Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
medium, high, emergency.
* Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
* [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
* [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
closes: Bug#102199
* [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
* Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
* [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
closes: Bug#100631
* [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
* The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
ther information provided. closes: Bug#105535
* Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
closes: Bug#105538
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:26:53 +0000 (05:26 +0000)]
* Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/24 09:48:12
* Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
system closes: Bug#91249
* Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
* Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
* Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
* OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
* The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
* The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
* Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
* Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
* Finish cleaning up chapter 12
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:26:28 +0000 (05:26 +0000)]
* Done chapter 10 now
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/08 00:21:13
* Done chapter 10 now
* debiandoc-sgml version 1.1.47 fixes most of the issues, so Text.pm
can be removed again
* Versioned build-depends for this
* Merged changes to LaTeX.pm
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:39 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Added doc-base support for all of the HTML docs in the package
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/02 00:26:25
* Added doc-base support for all of the HTML docs in the package
* Added a few more byhand files and rewrote chunks of debian/rules
* I'm pretty sure it won't work first time; it will need some testing
first! ;-)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:29 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Really install the FHS HTML version this time
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/01 23:02:14
* Really install the FHS HTML version this time
* More care over compression of doc files (don't want to compress .html)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:19 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Change names of policy maintainers (finish the job)
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/30 21:08:36
* Change names of policy maintainers (finish the job)
* Tiny language improvements to perl-policy
* Started work on chapter 9
* Major improvements to upgrading-checklist
* Corrections to changelog (a non-sensical entry had been
inadvertantly introduced)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:09 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Finished updates to chapter 7
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/30 12:58:53
* Finished updates to chapter 7
* Scrapped chapter 8 (but preserved so that the rest of policy doesn't
change its numbering)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:11:52 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
* [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/04/28 18:36:54
* [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
* [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
* Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
Julian's fixes:
* Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
* Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
closes: Bug#86436
* Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
closes: Bug#87233
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:11:09 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
* Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/04/15 18:40:31
* Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
* Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
* Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
package for the time being
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
* Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
* Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
* Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
* Correct typos etc. in policy-process
* Rename all .text files as .txt
* Fixed the to to typo in policy. closes: Bug#87007
* Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
* [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
Build-Depends arch syntax
* [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
configuration files
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:11:03 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
* Typos in various documents
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/13 00:10:17
* Typos in various documents
* Allow both "[PROPOSAL] ..." and "[PROPOSED] ..." titles in bug
reports (which is current practice)
* Package now generates .txt files instead of .text files
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:10:49 +0000 (05:10 +0000)]
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/11 21:40:23
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
* Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
* Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
* Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
Also lots of miscellaneous wording etc. improvements: start -> section
2.2, as discussed recently on -policy.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:10:04 +0000 (05:10 +0000)]
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/02/15 10:57:52
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
* No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
* Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
minor version number for this
* Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
* Clarify error conditions for package installation
(Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
* Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
* Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:55 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/02/13 16:21:14
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:39 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* Removed defunct virtual package names (closes
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/02/13 12:03:57
* Removed defunct virtual package names (closes: #84641)
* Changed postrm rmdir example so that it survives errors better
(suggested on -policy list)
* Typo cpu -> CPU
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:24 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/29 04:15:26
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
* More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
<cts@nikocity.de>
* Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
closes: Bug#83924
* Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
* Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
* [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
* Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
* document the fact that x font utilities have moved to the package
xutils, closes: Bug#82966
* Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
* Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
* Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
* Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
* Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
closes: Bug#80506
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:22 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/29 04:04:59
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
* More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
<cts@nikocity.de>
* Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
closes: Bug#83924
* Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
* Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
* [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
* Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
* document the fact that x font utilities have moved to the package
xutils, closes: Bug#82966
* Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
* Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
* Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
* Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
* Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
closes: Bug#80506
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:07 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/18 07:44:41
* The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
this version.
* Document the Enhances relationship
* Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
* Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
policy. closes: Bug#53496
* Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
closes: Bug#53700
* Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
* We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
* makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
* Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
closes: Bug#59403
* Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
* init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
* Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:53 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
* Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/17 05:57:37
* Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
* Incorporate the packaging manual. The minimal change in version number
i because I suspect that this version is going to be buggy.
closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
* Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
* Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
* Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
* Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
* Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
* [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
* Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
closes: Bug#77404
* Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:40 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
* [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/08/24 07:08:37
* [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
* [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
policy. closes: Bug#64437
* [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
* [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
* Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
* proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
* proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
* new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
* [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
* [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
* the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
* [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
* [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
* [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
* [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
closes: Bug#50832
* [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:31 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
Added must/should/may stuff, typo fixes in the policy and rules files, as well as updating the symlink before lib handling in dpkg language
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/08/21 01:16:27
Added must/should/may stuff, typo fixes in the policy and rules files, as well as updating the symlink before lib handling in dpkg language
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:09 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
Add dpkg-architecture invocation to the debian/rules file (not really needed here, but this standardizes the rules file)
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/07/30 21:14:30
Add dpkg-architecture invocation to the debian/rules file (not really needed here, but this standardizes the rules file)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:52 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
* Added FHS details to copyright file
Author: jdg
Date: 2000/06/23 16:37:48
* Added FHS details to copyright file
* Added wording for bug#22395: hard links to conffiles
* Modified debian/rules to handle different versions of groff
* Fixed bug#39398 (which actually received two seconds), with minor
amendments
* Removed versions 3.1.1.[23] from the changelog (merging the
changelog info); these were never actually released
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:46 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
Renumbered version to 3.2.0.0
Author: jdg
Date: 2000/06/20 15:31:32
Renumbered version to 3.2.0.0
Modified debian/rules to handle new FHS version (which has no
pre-formatted text or dvi version), and handle tmac.m patch file
from Daniel Quinlan
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:34 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
Fixed ftp path for the policy manual location. Fixed the missing entity in the sgml files. Register docs in the correct section.
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/03/18 02:37:57
Fixed ftp path for the policy manual location. Fixed the missing entity in the sgml files. Register docs in the correct section.
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/03/17 23:04:38
* [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
* [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
alternative closes: Bug#53755
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
list closes: Bug#53756
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
policy closes: Bug#53760
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
policy closes: Bug#53761
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
that use X closes: Bug#53762
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
* packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
* Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
* Documented that the library before the symlink hack (which dependend
on file system specific kinks to work) is no longer required by newer
versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
* Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
* [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
* We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
* Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since that is where they
belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
* Added policy-process to document current procedures.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:09 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/02/29 04:35:00
Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:06:57 +0000 (05:06 +0000)]
* Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes
Author: jdg
Date: 1999/12/20 20:43:36
* Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
* Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
* Removed old debian/postinst and debian/prerm files to avoid any
confusion
* Other miscellaneous cleanups (nothing of any substance)
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