Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:04:11 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
Perl now provides perlapi-<abiversion> where <abiversion> may be
more than just the version of Perl. Packages must update their
dependencies accordingly, using $Config{debian_abi} to form the
package dependency if set and falling back on $Config{version}
otherwise.
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:02:43 +0000 (10:02 -0700)]
Document debian-installer section and link to section list
Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:37:39 +0000 (09:37 -0700)]
Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats
Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:40:41 +0000 (10:40 -0700)]
Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
Mention init.d scripts as a special exception from the normal advise
to always use set -e in all shell scripts, and add a new paragraph to
the section on init.d scripts advising caution in using set -e and
explaining some of the issues.
Bill Allombert [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:39 +0000 (21:43 +0100)]
Clean up references in upgrading-checklist.
The old upgrading-checklist assumed references were after the message instead
of before. Adjust to reflect that.
Fix /etc/init.d/*SK]* to /etc/init.d/[SK]*.
Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:33:13 +0000 (01:33 -0600)]
New virtual package: cron-daemon
Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
- Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
- Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
- Correct support of /etc/crontab
- Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
ranges, step values
- Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
Signed-off-by: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org> Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:32:10 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
Use the "Failed-Config" state instead of the synonymous halfconfigured
These terms are synonyms. dpkg and dselect use halfconfigured
internally and Failed-config when talking to the user. This patch
ensures that policy uses the same term as dpkg does when talking to
the user ("Failed-Config") for consistency.
Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:12 +0000 (00:03 -0600)]
Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
Signed-off-by: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> Signed-off-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Signed-off-by: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Manoj Srivastava [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:26:21 +0000 (12:26 -0600)]
[bug556972-srivasta]: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
1) There are a lot of instances of programs looking things up in
selinuxfs (indirectly through libselinux). Most of these instances
look through /proc/mounts to discover where selinuxfs is mounted,
and thus do not care about the actual location
2) sysvinit (and upstart, if the patch is accepted) load the security
policy for machines where SELinux is enabled, and need to mount
selinuxfs to get details of the state of selinux in the
kernel. Since /proc is not around when this happens, this is the one
place where the distribution default od the selinuxfs mount point is
hard coded.
3) The default for fedora, gentoo, and Debian has been /selinux
4) Lots of people have also setup /etc/fstab to mount selinuxfs on
/selinux
5) there are user scripts that assume they can look into /selinux on
SELinux enabled machines, and this is a lot of things to change
This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
directories int he root file system allowed under the policy.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:26:50 +0000 (13:26 -0800)]
Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
Make explicit the requirement that packages not include named pipes in
addition to device files. State that named pipes must be created in
postinst and removed in prerm or postrm as appropriate. Suggest in a
footnote using mkfifo rather than mknod to avoid false positives from
package checkers.
Manoj Srivastava [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:05:18 +0000 (12:05 -0500)]
[master]: Added changelog for bug 545548
This patch add a README file, rendered as txt and html, and also
documents the policy change process, again rendered as text and
HTML. While the text and HTML files are automatically generated, they are
shipped in the package itself so as to avoud depending on a recent
version of Emacs during build. If a new Emacs is present, the .txt and
.html files shall be regenerated if the org file is newer.
The contents of the new documents are based on (but no identical to) the
contents of related pages on the Debian wiki. The long term plan is to
make these documents the canonical ones, and have the Wiki point to these
pages. Also render out a upgrading-checklist.txt (we can also do a
docbook version later)
[bug545548-srivasta]: Use a less confusing merge work-flow in the README
While still minimizing unneeded merges between master and bug branches,
this version of the document uses a less confusing command sequence. Also
update the HTML page.
[virtual packages]: Added virtual packages related to the Doom game engine
Added packages that support the Doom engine, a Doom engine which
supports the boom feature set, and virtual packages for the corresponding
data components.
[bug545548-srivasta]: Arrange to regenerate derived files from org source
For machines without a newer Emacs, this has no effect, but if a new
Emacs is present, the .txt and .html files shall be regenerated if the
org file is newer.
This patch add a README file, rendered as txt and html, and also
documents the policy change process, again rendered as text and
HTML. While the text and HTML files are automatically generated, they are
shipped in the package itself so as to avoud depending on a recent
version of Emacs during build.
The contents of the new documents are based on (but no identical to) the
contents of related pages on the Debian wiki. The long term plan is to
make these documents the canonical ones, and have the Wiki point to these
pages.
Steve Langasek [Sat, 5 Sep 2009 03:50:30 +0000 (20:50 -0700)]
Bug#542865: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:25:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 21 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> The current restriction is specific to libraries. Don't we need to say
> >> that you can't put *any* files into any triplet directory that isn't
> >> for your package architecture?
> > Hmm. My first read was that one could not put anything that was
> > not a library in these directories, but perhaps it should be stated
> > explicitly.
> I was expecting that we'd need to put anything that you might want to have
> simultaneous installs from multiple architectures in that directory, which
> would include, for instance, any shared library plugins or loadable
> modules, which aren't strictly libraries.
> We might have to duplicate some library helper programs as well, if for
> instance they communicate with the library using binary structures that
> are sensitive to sizeof(long).
Right, this was a bug in the proposed patch, not a deliberate statement that
only libraries belong in these directories. (As I mentioned, the first
patch was something of a trial balloon.) I think this updated patch should
cover everything for the first round.
Russ Allbery [Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:04:24 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
Remove seconds by non-DDs
Consensus on debian-policy seems to be that seconding should be
restricted to Debian Developers, so remove seconds from non-DDs and
add an additional second from that thread for the man page translation
change.
Russ Allbery [Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:04:00 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
sensible-* come from the sensible-utils package
Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
Russ Allbery [Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:49:37 +0000 (16:49 -0700)]
Add dependency recommendation for packages with info documents
This is an additional fix for #538665. Recommend a dependency that
ensures a triggerized install-info is available so that the dir file
will be properly rebuilt on partial upgrades from lenny. Reviewed
by Bill Allombert and Raphaël Hertzog.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:23:34 +0000 (13:23 -0700)]
Fix the footnote on modifying Texinfo source for dir information
The footnote about how to modify the Texinfo source to add the necessary
info directory information ended two lines before it should. Thanks,
Raphaël Hertzog.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:14:46 +0000 (01:14 -0700)]
Improve Description and Changes specification for *.changes
* Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
add more details about the contents of the Description field in
a *.changes file.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:06:17 +0000 (20:06 -0700)]
Clarify the description of the Files control field
Reword a difficult sentence in the Files control field description and
add examples of the two versions of the field. Thanks to Jeremiah
Foster for the report and wording discussion.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:07:47 +0000 (19:07 -0700)]
Add an SGML comment with a close double-quote to unconfuse Emacs
Emacs wants the unmatched double-quote in the discussion of init scripts
to be closed and otherwise treats the rest of the file as if it's in a
string. Unconfuse it with an SGML comment.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 7 Aug 2009 23:36:18 +0000 (16:36 -0700)]
Remove the encoding requirement for manual pages
Previously, all characters in a manual page had to be representable in
the legacy encoding for that language due to limitations in groff. The
current release of groff removes that limitation, so this restriction
can be lifted.
The system administrator may have removed an override, and --remove will
fail if none exist. Suggest checking first to see whether the override
exists before removing it.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:34:31 +0000 (15:34 -0700)]
Rewrite info documents section
install-info now uses dpkg hooks, so remove all requirements for running
install-info in package maintainer scripts. Document the necessary info
directory information and provide Texinfo modification instructions in a
footnote. Explicitly forbid packages from including /usr/share/info/dir.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:04:09 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
Unify the syntax description for package names
In the Package field description, reference the syntax for source package
names in the Source field description rather than repeating it. Add a
cross-reference to Package in the Source field description.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:34:07 +0000 (13:34 -0700)]
Allow the Binary control field to wrap
Allow the Binary control field to wrap in both *.dsc and *.changes files,
since we have some source packages that produce lines so long that GnuPG
is no longer willing to sign the file.
Clearly state that the syntax is different depending on whether the field
appears in a *.dsc file or a *.changes file.
Thanks to Raphaël Hertzog for the report. Debian Bug#533852.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:24:46 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
Improve the Installed-Size wording
Avoid the term kibibytes, which is controversial. Document that
Installed-Size is only an estimate and may vary based on block size,
file system properties, and actions taken by maintainer scripts.
Using /etc/X11 for configuration is allowed, not should
Expand the list of applications that may use /etc/X11 for configuration
files to include session managers, but change this section to may from
should. There doesn't appear to be a reason to encourage this going
forward. Reword the section for more direct phrasing.
* Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
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