From ed4580503a42e94dffdabd7da55f9ea34c512f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manoj Srivastava Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:34:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * 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 --- debian/changelog | 5 ++++- debian/control | 1 - policy.sgml | 12 ++++-------- virtual-package-names-list.txt | 8 ++++---- 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index b222419..d5080a4 100644 --- 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 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 bda4d75..c691f08 100644 --- 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 583cac0..b9bc231 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -959,11 +959,10 @@ - Base packages + Base system

- The packages included in the base section have a - special function. They form a minimum subset of the Debian + The base system 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 base section to keep the required @@ -974,11 +973,8 @@ required or at least important, and many of them will be tagged essential (see below).

-

- You must not place any packages into the base - section before this has been discussed on the - debian-devel mailing list and a consensus about - doing that has been reached.

 + + diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt index 35be9ca..89664f4 100644 --- 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 ------------------------- -- 2.39.2