1 debian-policy (4.1.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'should' -> 'must'
4 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
5 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
6 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
10 * Update links to other formats in 1.2 (Closes: #877674).
11 Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the patch.
12 * Fix duplication in upgrading checklist.
13 /nonexistent as the canonical home directory was listed under 4.1.1
15 * Miscellaneous spelling fixes (Closes: #878523).
16 Thanks to Ville Skyttä for the patch.
17 * Drop workarounds in d/rules for the (reopened) dh_sphinxdoc bug #872863.
18 Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for fixing the bug.
19 - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.
21 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:17:36 -0700
23 debian-policy (4.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
25 * Fix some broken links in singlehtml output (Closes: #877573).
26 Thanks to Paul Wise for pointing out the problem.
28 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:22:45 -0700
30 debian-policy (4.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
33 * Add back missing parentheses around the man page section in man page
34 references in the Policy manual, lost in the conversion to
35 reStructuredText. Thanks, Daniel Shahaf.
36 * Revert the contents of the policy.html directory to the multi-page
37 HTML output. (Closes: #872895)
38 * Move the single-page HTML output to policy-1.html, matching the
39 previous file name, and add the supporting _images and _static
40 directories to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy.
41 * Remove the stray policy.html.tar.gz file from the built package.
43 * Simplify the build rules for generating policy.html.
44 * Remove some stray build rules left over from DocBook Policy.
45 * Restructure the document to ensure proper section numbering in info
46 and PDF output except for the appendices. The appendix numbering
47 will require a Sphinx change. (Closes: #872893, #872950)
48 * Rename the info document to debian-policy.info to make it less
49 generic, and update the PNG file names accordingly. (Closes: #872900)
50 * Reformat the shared libraries chapter (8) to move footnotes to the end
51 of the section of their references and use more succinct
52 reStructuredText syntax. Fix some errors in the shlibs syntax and
53 examples introduced by the conversion, and missing newlines in the
54 footnote illustrating alternative templates that were lost in the
56 * Add a footnote documenting a (complex) command that returns the Debian
57 package name for a shared library. Thanks, Jakub Wilk and Julien
58 Cristau. (Closes: #661928)
59 * Add build dependency on latexmk. (Closes: #873125)
62 * Policy: debian/changelog must exist in source packages
63 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
64 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
65 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
68 * Policy: /nonexistent is the canonical non-existent home directory
69 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
70 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Correct the description of Testsuite: field
74 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
75 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
78 Thanks to Ondřej Nový for pointing out the problem.
79 * Fix a typo in 4.1.0 upgrading checklist (Closes: #873819).
80 Thanks, Martin Kepplinger.
81 * Add missing line breaks in summary of the ways in which maintainer
82 scripts may be called (Closes: #874411).
83 Thanks Sébastian Villemot for reporting the issue, and for the patch.
84 * Drop workarounds for dh_sphinxdoc's lack of support for singlehtml.
85 Thanks Dmitry Shachnev for the new support in dh_sphinxdoc.
86 - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.
88 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:27:46 -0700
90 debian-policy (4.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium
93 * Policy: Packages should build reproducibly
94 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
95 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
96 Seconded: Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>
97 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>
99 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
101 * Policy: Restrictions on the use of /lib64/ and /usr/lib64/
102 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
104 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
106 * Policy: Clarify how `x-terminal-emulator -e` must behave
107 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
108 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
111 * Fix a singular/plural error in 9.6.
112 Thanks to Didier Raboud for pointing out the problem.
113 * Improve release process documentation in README.md.
114 * Policy changes process:
115 - Deprecate usage of the 'issue' usertag
116 It is usually very clear whether an issue is a policy matter, so bugs
117 can be simply closed, or moved to the 'discussion' phase.
118 In the rare case that it's not clear whether the bug is a policy matter,
119 it can remain unclassified, or be tagged 'moreinfo' (see below).
120 - Add policy-specific usage for the 'moreinfo' tag.
121 * tools/policy-bug-report:
122 - Enhance to fetch bugs that have a given usertag or combination of
124 - Improve the lists of bugs generated, for posting to Planet Debian.
125 * Add convention to upgrading checklist for indicating that a policy
126 requirement is covered by Lintian.
129 * Policy: Recommend including the upstream signing key
130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
132 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
133 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Clearly allow non-default alternative non-free dependencies
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
141 [ Russ Allbery & Sean Whitton ]
142 * Convert the source of the Debian Policy Manual to reStructuredText,
143 built using the Sphinx toolchain.
144 Many thanks to Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> for the conversion
145 scripts, and pushing the project forward.
146 Thanks to David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> for help proofreading the
148 - Drop PostScript output.
150 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:17:42 -0700
152 debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
155 * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra
156 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
158 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
159 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
160 Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367
161 * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
168 * Policy: Disambiguate "original authors" in 12.5
169 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
174 * Policy: Document Testsuite: field
175 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
178 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers
181 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
182 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
183 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
184 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems
187 Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
188 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
191 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
193 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry
196 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
197 Seconded: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
198 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
199 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
201 * Convert Process.md to an appendix to Policy itself.
202 - Update link in "Authors and Maintainers" to point to this new
203 appendix (Closes: #866192).
204 * Incorporate Margarita Manterola's maintscript flowcharts as a new
205 appendix (Closes: #485776).
206 Many thanks to David Bremner for help importing the images to docbook.
207 - Add a footnote to 6.6 linking to the new appendix.
208 * Update first paragraph of Appendix A to note that the final three
209 appendices (the policy changes process and the upgrading checklist)
210 were not taken from the Packaging Manual.
211 * Add a footnote linking to the REJECT-FAQ (Closes: #849853).
212 * Note that the debian/rules clean target is useless for removing files
213 not compatible with the DFSG (Closes: #849851).
214 * Add 'javascript', 'rust' archive sections (Closes: #867308).
215 * Drop remark that systems with only required packages installed are
216 "probably unusable", and add a paragraph break. (Closes: #589671).
218 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:47:47 -0400
220 debian-policy (4.0.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium
222 * Fix URLs to Policy documents. Policy previously used the full URL as
223 the link but a partial URL as anchor text, and then sometimes added
224 the full URL in parentheses. The result was very ugly in the text
225 version. Replace that style with just the full URL as anchor text for
226 a link to that URL, which is not ideal for HTML output but produces
227 reasonable results for both HTML and text.
228 * Extensive reformatting of the maintainer script section.
229 - Use <cmdsynopsis> in the summary of how maintainer scripts are
230 called, with a single <term>. This avoids gluing all the command
231 summaries together with commas. The output in text is radically
232 better; HTML has some font issues, but isn't awful.
233 - Avoid trailing newlines in <screen> examples, which produce extra
234 whitespace in text and HTML output.
235 - Use different numeration methods at different levels of the nested
236 ordered lists and ensure there is some introductory text for each
237 list element to avoid awkward formatting.
238 * Convert many of the <screen> tags in Policy to </programlisting> since
239 the semantics are slightly more correct.
240 * Remove the newline before </screen> or </programlisting> end tags,
241 since it produces an extraneous and distracting blank line in both
242 text and HTML output.
243 * Change the mapping of Perl module names to Debian package names in
244 the Perl Policy from a verbatim block to a table.
245 * Change the list of cron directories from a verbatim block to a list.
247 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:34:27 -0700
249 debian-policy (4.0.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
252 * Fix typo 'the' -> 'they' in upgrading checklist (Closes: #865685).
253 Thanks Sven Joachim for the report.
256 * Move the autopkgtest, copyright-format, and debconf_specification
257 source files to the top-level directory and the debconf_spec/include
258 files to a debconf directory. Simplify the build system to eliminate
259 recursive make, reuse the same XML version file for all files, and use
260 the same method of embedding a version in Markdown output for all
262 * Fix dependencies so that version.xml is generated before XML
263 validation is done on XML source files.
264 * Move README.shlibdeps and libc6-migration.txt to a new historical
265 subdirectory and add a README explaining that the files in this
266 directory are of historical interest only and are not included in the
267 debian-policy binary package.
269 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:11:19 -0700
271 debian-policy (4.0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Update list of Policy Editors in various places.
275 See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/06/msg00005.html
278 * Remove mention of the libc6 migration paper from the package long
279 description. This is no longer shipped in the debian-policy package.
281 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:58:28 -0700
283 debian-policy (4.0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Upload to unstable.
286 * Clarify the conflict policy between /path and /usr/path by adding the
287 leading slash in front of the first path. Thanks, Ferenc Wágner.
288 * Change http URLs to https for every resource available over https.
289 * Replace broken CPAN URL in the Perl policy with the current URL, and
290 turn this into an in-line link rather than a footnote with the full
291 URL. This hides the URL in the text output, but it's not horribly
292 important for the text version and easy to find with a search.
293 * Fix formatting of the list of shlibs and symbol file locations. These
294 were mistakenly converted to itemized lists instead of variable lists
295 during the DocBook conversion, which produced inferior output.
296 * Use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 as the character set for the text
297 versions of policy documents.
298 * Further standardize author and copyright notices.
299 - Add the notice from the main document that the copyright notices are
300 incomplete to the other documents with copyright notices.
301 - Add the Debian Policy Mailing List as an author of the debconf
303 - Replace (incorrect) Software in the Public Interest copyrights with
304 copyright notices for the original authors.
305 - Standardize capitalization of Debian Policy Mailing List in notices.
306 - Update copyright notices in debian/copyright.
307 * Add a full copy of the BSD license without advertising clause to the
308 <legalinfo> section of the debconf specification, instead of just a
310 * Update the GPL license statements to the current recommended form,
311 which doesn't include a street address for the FSF. Use all-caps for
312 the warranty disclaimer just in case it matters. Link to the general
313 FSF license page to make it easier to find the GPLv2, which is
314 technically the license under which these documents are distributed,
315 even if the GPLv3 may be used if desired.
316 * Completely rewrite the build system to use debhelper.
317 - Remove all hand-rolled package build rules and let debhelper do the
318 package construction.
319 - Remove gzip compression from the main build and let debhelper handle
320 compression of text files. This allows debhelper to control the
321 gzip flags and do whatever is correct for reproducible builds.
322 - The top-level Makefile now has conventional all and install targets
323 that build all documents and would install them (not that anyone is
324 likely to use the install target other than the packaging).
325 - Get the document publication dates from debian/changelog instead of
326 the current date for more reproducible builds.
327 - Do xmllint validation of the copyright-format and debconf
328 specification documents as well.
329 - Remove a bunch of old leftovers from the clean and distclean targets
330 and make distclean identical to clean. Stop cleaning editor
331 autosave files and patch droppings (this can be destructive).
332 - Move all doc-base files into the debian packaging directory.
333 * Restructure the command list in the debconf specification document to
334 pass xmllint, which didn't like including the body of an itemizedlist
336 * Add missing release date to the 4.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry.
337 * Fix tools/policy-bug-report to not fail when bug lists are empty and
338 to ignore closed bugs.
339 * Don't delete virtual-package-names-list.txt during make distclean.
340 * Make distclean depend on clean to remove stamp-* files.
341 * Update Standards-Version of the debian-policy package itself.
343 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 18 Jun 2017 19:27:48 -0700
345 debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low
348 * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses
349 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
353 * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers
354 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
357 Thanks: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
359 * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build
360 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
362 Seconded: Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>
364 * Spelling fixes, thanks to Martin A. Brown. Closes: #820197
367 * Policy: [10.9] Don't contact base-passwd maintainer for dynamic users
368 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
371 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
373 * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch
374 Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>
381 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
384 * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin
385 Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
386 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
390 * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph
391 Wording: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>
392 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
395 * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags
396 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
400 * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly
401 Wording: Ondřej Nový <onovy@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
405 * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages
406 Wording: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
407 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
411 * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
414 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev
418 Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended
423 Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
424 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Ondřej Nový <novy@ondrej.org>
428 * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run
429 Wording: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
430 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
431 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
436 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart
439 Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
444 * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support
445 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
446 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure
450 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
454 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3
455 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages
460 Wording: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
464 * Convert all remaining DebianDoc-SGML source files in the package to
465 DocBook XML. Many thanks to Osamu Aoki and Guillem Jover for lots of
466 hard work on the conversion. This was a huge conversion, so there
467 will probably be some lingering formatting issues, incorrect markup,
468 and less-than-ideal output. Please report any problems as bugs.
469 (Closes: #175064, #700532, #809382)
470 * Additional fixes from Guillem Jover as part of the DocBook conversion:
471 - Stop distributing the source SGML files as part of the installed
472 package. There doesn't seem to be any point in doing this.
473 - Switch to xsltproc and dblatex instead of OpenJade.
474 - Stop using tidy on the generated files since it generates larger
475 files and the output from xsltproc is already compliant and fairly
477 - Remove unused Build-Depends.
478 - Use entities instead of literal <, >, and & characters.
479 - Use <var> instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables.
480 - Use <var> instead of <em> inside <tt>.
481 - Avoid slashes in section IDs.
482 - Convert a comment about maintenance policy in the Menu Policy
483 document to a regular paragraph in the document.
484 - Replace a comment reference to the policy maintenance process with
485 an actual link to Process.md.
486 - Remove obsolete SGML comments.
487 * Move the description of < and > relations to a footnote to make
488 abundantly clear that they're no longer valid relation operators in
489 dependencies. (Closes: #816515)
490 * Clarify informative mentions of debian/tmp in the appendices to
491 document the now-common use of debian/<pkg> instead as the temporary
492 staging area. Document that convention, instead of
493 debian/tmp-something, for multi-binary packages. Thanks, Niels
494 Thykier. (Closes: #816249)
495 * Remove lingering wording that implied that build-arch and build-indep
496 targets are optional. Thanks, Ferenc Wagner, Jakub Wilk, and Charles
497 Plessy. (Closes: #793999)
498 * Rather than giving the paths to the installed shlibs and symbols files
499 and then saying those paths shouldn't be used, just say to use
500 dpkg-query --control-show. Recommend --control-show instead of
501 --control-path, since the latter is deprecated. Patch from Salvatore
502 Bonaccorso. (Closes: #688220)
503 * Explicitly give Unicode code points in the definition of the syntax of
504 Debian control files and, where appropriate, show the character.
505 Patch from Ben Finney. (Closes: #821365)
506 * Remove obsolete footnote about a versioned dependency on a
507 liblockfile1 release from 1999. Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #794902)
508 * Fix the long name of the Common Public License in the copyright-format
509 policy. It is just Common Public License, with no leading "IBM".
510 Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli. (Closes: #781654)
511 * Fix the copyright-format examples to not have duplicate License
512 paragraphs. Thanks, Stefan <bd@bc-bd.org>. (Closes: #824922)
513 * Replace reference to dbus-launch in the autopkgtest documentation with
514 dbus-run-session. Patch from Simon McVittie. (Closes: #835876)
515 * Add an example of an architecture restriction in a dependency with
516 multiple architectures separated by spaces. (Closes: #734662)
517 * Replace use of markdown with MultiMarkdown for the autopkgtest
518 documentation and convert README and Process to MultiMarkdown, thus
519 dropping the last org-mode files and the build dependency on Emacs.
520 Patch from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #849483)
521 * Add some additional information to the upgrading-checklist entry for
523 * Fix debian/changelog and upgrading-checklist dates for the 3.9.8.0
524 release to match the actual upload. (Closes: #822059)
525 * Fix duplicated "the" words in 4.4 and 8.6.3.2. Patch from Valentin
526 Samir. (Closes: #830989)
527 * Clean up the upgrading checklist a bit:
528 - Rewrite the introduction to read a bit more smoothly and mention
529 that the Standards-Version value omits the minor patch number.
530 - Remove the minor patch number from all the version headings except
531 for the anomalies that contain normative changes, and note those
533 - Remove some unhelpful section headings and trailing colons in very
534 old upgrading checklist entries.
535 - Standardize the release date format.
536 * Compress all files with gzip -n to avoid embedding timestamps,
537 enabling reproducible builds.
538 * Redo some of the Makefile and debian/rules dependencies to avoid
539 ambiguous pattern rules and to ensure that make at the top level
540 rebuilds output files if input files change.
541 * Switch to https URLs for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser.
542 * Use the same URL for both Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser, which now works
543 fine and has some advantages over the gitweb version for Vcs-Browser.
544 Thanks, Mattia Rizzolo.
545 * Run wrap-and-sort -ast.
546 * Tag as Multi-Arch: foreign (mostly to silence the hinter).
549 * Remove references to DebianDoc-SGML from README.md.
550 * Fix typo & comma splice in Process.md.
552 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 28 May 2017 12:27:07 -0700
554 debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium
556 * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported.
557 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>
559 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (for the menu entries)
560 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 03:49:58 +0000
565 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
568 * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.
569 * debian/control, Makefile:
570 - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663
571 - migrate to openjade and opensp.
572 * debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478
573 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
574 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
579 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
580 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
585 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
586 the debian/control file of a source package.
587 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
591 * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network
593 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
597 * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
598 in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.
599 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
604 [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
605 * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,
606 as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests
609 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:03:51 +0100
611 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
614 for the help. Closes: #769219
616 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
618 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
621 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
622 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
624 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
625 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
626 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
627 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
628 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
629 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
630 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
631 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
632 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
634 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
636 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
637 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
643 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
644 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
648 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
649 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
653 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
654 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
658 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
660 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
665 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
666 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
668 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
670 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
671 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
675 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
676 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
678 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
680 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
681 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
685 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
686 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
687 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
690 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
691 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
693 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
696 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
697 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
698 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
699 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
701 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
706 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
709 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
713 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
714 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
719 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
720 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
724 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
725 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
726 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
727 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
732 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
733 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
736 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
737 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
741 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
742 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
744 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
746 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
747 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
748 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
752 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
753 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
757 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
758 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
760 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
762 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
763 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
764 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
767 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
768 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
769 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
773 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
774 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
775 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
777 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
778 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
779 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
780 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
781 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
782 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
783 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
784 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
785 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
786 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
787 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
788 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
790 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
791 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
792 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
793 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
795 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
797 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
799 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
800 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
801 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
803 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
804 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
805 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
806 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
807 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
808 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
811 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
812 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
813 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
814 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
816 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
817 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
819 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
821 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
822 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
823 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
824 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
828 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
829 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
830 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
831 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
833 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
834 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
835 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
836 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
839 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
840 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
841 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
844 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
845 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
847 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
850 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
852 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
855 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
856 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
857 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
858 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
860 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
861 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
862 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
863 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
864 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
865 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
866 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
867 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
868 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
869 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
870 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
871 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
872 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
873 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
874 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
875 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
876 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
878 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
879 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
880 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
881 good to know which version one is looking at.
882 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
883 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
884 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
885 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
886 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
887 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
888 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
890 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
891 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
892 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
893 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
894 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
896 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
897 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
898 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
900 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
901 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
902 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
903 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
905 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
907 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
911 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
912 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
913 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
914 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
915 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
916 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
917 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
918 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
919 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
920 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
921 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
925 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
926 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
929 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
931 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
932 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
933 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
936 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
938 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
939 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
943 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
944 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
945 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
946 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
947 Closes: #620870, #532120
948 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
949 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
951 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
952 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
954 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
955 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
956 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
960 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
961 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
962 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
963 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
964 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
966 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
967 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
968 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
969 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
970 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
971 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
972 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
973 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
974 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
975 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
976 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
977 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
978 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
979 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
980 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
981 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
983 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
985 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
986 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
987 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
988 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
989 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
990 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
991 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
992 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
993 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
994 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
997 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
999 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
1000 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
1001 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
1002 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1005 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1007 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
1008 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
1010 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
1011 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
1012 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
1013 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1016 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
1018 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1022 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
1023 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
1024 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1025 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1027 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
1028 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1029 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
1031 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
1032 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1033 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
1034 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1036 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
1038 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
1039 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
1041 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1043 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
1044 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1046 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
1047 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1049 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
1050 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
1051 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
1052 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1053 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
1055 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
1056 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
1057 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
1058 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
1060 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
1061 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1062 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
1063 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1066 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
1068 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
1071 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1072 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1073 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1074 Closes: #459868, #581011
1075 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
1076 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1077 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1078 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1080 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
1081 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1082 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1083 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1085 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
1086 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1087 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
1088 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1090 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
1091 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1092 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1093 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1095 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
1096 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1097 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1098 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1099 Closes: #501930, #593909
1100 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
1101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1102 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1103 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1105 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
1106 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
1107 machine. (Closes: #591857)
1108 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
1109 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
1110 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
1111 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
1112 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
1113 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
1114 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
1115 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
1116 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
1117 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
1119 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
1120 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
1121 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
1122 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
1123 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
1124 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
1125 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
1126 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
1127 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
1128 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
1129 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
1130 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
1131 than the version in oldstable.
1132 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
1133 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
1134 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
1135 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
1136 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
1137 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
1138 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
1139 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
1140 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
1141 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
1142 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
1143 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
1144 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
1145 package. (Closes: #609160)
1147 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
1149 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
1152 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1153 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1154 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
1155 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1157 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
1158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1159 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1160 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1162 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
1163 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1164 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1165 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
1167 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
1168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1169 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1170 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1171 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1172 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
1173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1174 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1175 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1177 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
1178 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1179 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1180 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1182 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
1183 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1184 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1185 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1187 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
1188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1189 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1190 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1192 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
1193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1194 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1195 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1197 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
1198 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1199 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1200 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1201 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1203 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
1204 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1205 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1206 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1207 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1209 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
1210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1211 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1212 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
1214 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
1215 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1216 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1217 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1219 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
1220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1221 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1222 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
1224 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
1225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1226 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1227 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
1229 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
1230 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1231 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1232 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
1234 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
1235 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1236 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1237 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1239 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
1241 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
1242 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
1243 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
1244 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
1245 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
1246 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
1247 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
1248 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
1249 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
1251 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
1252 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
1253 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
1254 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
1255 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
1256 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
1258 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
1260 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
1266 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
1269 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
1270 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
1271 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
1272 and distribution license' (three times).
1273 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
1274 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1275 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
1276 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1277 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1279 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
1281 Proposed by Santiago Vila
1282 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1283 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
1284 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1285 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1289 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
1290 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1291 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1292 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1294 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
1295 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1297 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1298 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1299 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1301 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
1302 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1303 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1304 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1306 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
1307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1308 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1309 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1310 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1312 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
1313 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1314 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1315 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1316 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1318 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
1319 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1320 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1321 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1322 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1324 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
1325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
1326 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1327 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1329 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
1330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1331 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1332 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1333 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1335 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
1336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1337 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1338 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1340 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
1341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1342 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1343 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1345 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
1346 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1347 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1348 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1349 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
1351 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
1352 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
1353 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1354 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1356 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
1357 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
1358 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1359 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
1360 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
1362 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
1363 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
1364 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1365 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1367 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
1368 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
1369 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
1370 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
1371 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
1372 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
1373 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
1374 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
1375 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
1376 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
1377 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
1378 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
1379 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
1380 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
1381 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
1382 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
1383 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
1384 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
1385 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
1386 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
1387 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
1388 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
1389 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
1390 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
1391 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
1392 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
1393 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
1394 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
1395 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
1396 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
1397 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
1398 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
1400 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
1402 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
1404 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
1408 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
1410 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
1411 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
1414 [ Manoj Srivastava ]
1415 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
1418 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
1419 Wording: Steve Langasek.
1420 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
1421 Seconded: Julien Cristau
1422 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
1425 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
1426 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
1427 Seconded: Russ Allbery
1428 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
1431 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
1432 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
1433 Seconded: Russ Allbery
1435 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
1436 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
1437 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
1438 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
1439 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
1440 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
1441 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
1442 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1443 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1445 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
1446 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
1447 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
1448 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
1449 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
1450 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1452 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1453 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
1454 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
1455 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
1456 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
1457 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
1458 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
1459 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1460 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1462 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
1463 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
1464 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
1465 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
1466 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
1468 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
1471 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
1472 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1473 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1474 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1475 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
1476 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
1479 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
1481 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
1484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1485 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1486 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1488 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
1489 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1491 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1493 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
1494 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1495 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1496 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1498 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
1499 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1500 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1501 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1502 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1503 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1505 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
1506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1507 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1508 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1509 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1511 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
1512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1513 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1514 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1516 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
1517 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1518 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1519 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
1521 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
1522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1523 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1524 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1526 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
1527 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1528 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1529 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1531 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
1532 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1533 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1534 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1536 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
1537 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
1538 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
1539 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
1540 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
1541 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
1542 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
1543 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
1544 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
1545 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
1546 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
1547 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
1548 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
1549 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
1550 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
1552 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
1553 Source field descriptions.
1554 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
1555 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
1556 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
1557 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
1558 description says otherwise.
1560 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
1562 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
1566 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1567 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1568 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
1569 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1570 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1572 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
1573 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1574 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1575 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1577 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
1578 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1579 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1580 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1582 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
1583 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1584 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1585 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1587 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1588 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1589 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1590 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1594 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1595 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1596 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1597 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1598 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1600 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1601 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1603 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1605 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1608 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1609 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1611 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1612 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1613 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1615 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1617 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1620 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1621 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1622 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1624 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1625 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1626 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1627 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1629 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1630 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1631 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1632 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1634 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1635 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1636 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1637 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1639 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1640 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1641 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1642 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1644 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1645 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1646 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1647 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1649 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1650 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1651 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1652 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1654 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1656 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1657 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1659 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1660 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1661 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1662 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1664 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1665 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1666 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1667 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1669 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1670 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1671 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1672 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1673 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1675 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1676 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1677 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1678 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1679 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1680 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1681 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1682 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1683 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1684 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1685 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1686 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1687 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1688 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1689 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1690 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1691 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1692 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1693 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1694 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1695 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1696 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1697 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1698 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1699 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1700 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1701 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1702 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1703 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1704 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1706 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1707 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1708 links was completed long ago.
1709 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1711 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1713 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1716 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1718 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1720 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1723 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1724 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1725 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1726 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1727 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1728 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1729 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1730 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1731 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1733 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1735 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1737 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1738 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1739 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1740 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1741 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1742 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1743 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1745 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1746 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1747 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1748 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1750 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1751 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1752 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1753 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1754 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1755 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1756 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1757 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1758 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1759 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1760 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1761 Closes: #186700, #458910
1762 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1763 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1764 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1766 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1767 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1768 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1769 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1770 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1771 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1772 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1773 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1775 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1776 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1778 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1779 * Add an md5sums control file.
1780 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1781 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1782 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1783 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1784 currently part of policy.
1785 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1786 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1787 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1790 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1792 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1795 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1796 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1797 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1798 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1799 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1800 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1801 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1802 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1803 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1805 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1806 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1807 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1808 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1809 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1811 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1813 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1814 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1815 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1817 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1818 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1819 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1820 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1821 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1822 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1823 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1824 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1825 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1826 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1827 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1828 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1829 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1830 debconf specification.
1831 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1832 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1834 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1836 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1839 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1841 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1842 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1844 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1847 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1848 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1849 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1850 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1852 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1853 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1854 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1855 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1856 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1857 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1858 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1859 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1860 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1861 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1862 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1863 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1864 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1866 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1872 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1873 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1874 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1876 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1877 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1878 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1880 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1882 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1885 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1886 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1888 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1890 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1893 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1894 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1895 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1897 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1898 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1899 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1900 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1901 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1903 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1904 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1905 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1906 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1907 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1908 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1910 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1912 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1915 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1916 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1917 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1919 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1920 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1922 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1924 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1927 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1928 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1929 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1930 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1931 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1932 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1933 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1934 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1935 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1937 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1938 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1940 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1941 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1942 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1944 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1946 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1947 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1950 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1952 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1955 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1957 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1958 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1959 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1960 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1961 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1962 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1963 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1964 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1965 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1966 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1967 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1968 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1969 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1970 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1971 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1972 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1973 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1975 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1976 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1977 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1978 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1979 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1980 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1981 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1983 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1984 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1985 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1986 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1987 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1988 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1989 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1990 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1991 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1992 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1993 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1994 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1995 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1996 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1997 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1998 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
2000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
2001 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
2003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
2004 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
2005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
2006 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
2007 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
2008 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
2009 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
2010 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
2011 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
2012 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
2013 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
2015 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
2017 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
2021 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
2022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
2023 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
2024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
2025 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
2026 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
2027 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
2028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
2029 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
2030 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
2031 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
2032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
2034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
2035 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
2036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
2037 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
2038 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
2039 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
2040 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
2041 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
2042 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
2043 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
2044 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
2045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
2046 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
2047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
2048 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
2049 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
2050 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
2051 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
2052 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
2055 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
2057 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
2060 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
2061 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
2062 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
2064 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
2065 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
2066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
2067 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
2069 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
2071 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
2075 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
2076 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
2077 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
2078 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
2079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
2080 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
2081 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
2082 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
2083 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
2085 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
2086 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
2087 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
2089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
2090 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
2091 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
2092 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
2093 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
2094 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
2095 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
2097 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
2098 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
2099 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
2100 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
2102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
2103 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
2104 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
2105 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
2106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
2107 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
2108 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
2109 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
2111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
2112 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
2113 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
2114 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
2115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
2116 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
2117 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
2118 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
2119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
2120 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
2121 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
2122 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
2123 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
2124 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
2125 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
2126 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
2127 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
2129 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
2131 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
2135 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
2136 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
2137 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
2138 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
2139 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
2140 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
2141 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
2142 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
2144 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
2145 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
2146 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
2147 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
2148 this section. closes: Bug#248618
2149 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
2150 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
2151 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
2152 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
2153 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
2154 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
2155 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
2156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
2157 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
2158 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
2159 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
2160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
2162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
2163 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
2164 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
2167 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
2168 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
2169 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
2171 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
2172 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
2173 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
2174 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
2175 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
2176 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
2178 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
2179 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
2181 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
2182 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
2183 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
2184 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
2185 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
2186 Closes: #185943, #237049
2188 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
2190 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
2196 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
2197 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
2198 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
2199 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
2200 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
2201 running. closes: Bug#187250
2202 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
2203 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
2204 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
2205 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
2206 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
2207 user closes: Bug#176506
2209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
2211 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
2215 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
2216 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
2217 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
2218 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
2219 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
2220 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
2221 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
2222 deb-building toolchain.
2223 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
2224 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
2225 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
2226 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
2227 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
2228 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
2229 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
2230 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
2231 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
2232 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
2233 sections about changelog files.
2235 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
2236 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
2237 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
2238 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
2239 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
2240 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
2242 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
2243 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
2244 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
2245 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
2246 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
2247 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
2248 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
2249 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
2250 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
2251 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
2252 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
2253 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
2254 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
2255 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
2256 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
2257 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
2258 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
2259 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
2260 for the restructuring
2262 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
2264 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
2269 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
2270 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
2271 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
2272 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
2273 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
2274 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
2276 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
2277 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
2278 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
2279 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
2280 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
2281 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
2282 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
2284 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
2285 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
2286 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
2287 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
2289 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
2291 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
2295 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
2296 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
2297 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
2298 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
2299 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
2301 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
2302 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
2303 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
2304 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
2306 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
2307 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
2308 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
2309 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
2310 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
2311 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
2312 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
2313 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
2314 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
2315 offtopic stuff, too.
2316 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
2317 script should start it, closes: #60979
2318 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
2319 "should", closes: #170019
2320 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
2321 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
2322 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
2323 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
2324 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
2325 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
2326 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
2327 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
2330 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
2332 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
2336 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
2337 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
2338 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
2339 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
2340 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
2341 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
2342 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
2343 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
2345 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
2346 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
2347 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
2348 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
2349 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
2350 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
2351 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
2352 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
2353 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
2355 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
2356 file, closes: Bug#65764
2358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
2360 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
2363 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
2364 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
2365 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
2366 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
2367 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
2368 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
2369 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
2370 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
2371 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
2372 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
2373 details. closes: Bug#133030
2374 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
2375 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
2376 parts of Bug#161455.
2378 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
2380 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
2383 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
2384 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
2385 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
2386 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
2387 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
2388 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
2389 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
2390 not. closes: Bug#139820
2391 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
2392 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
2393 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
2394 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
2395 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
2396 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
2397 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
2398 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
2399 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
2400 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
2402 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
2404 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
2405 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
2406 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
2407 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
2408 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
2409 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
2410 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
2411 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
2412 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
2413 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
2414 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
2415 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
2416 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
2417 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
2418 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
2419 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
2420 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
2421 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
2422 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
2423 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
2425 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
2426 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
2427 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
2428 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
2429 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
2430 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
2431 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
2433 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
2434 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
2435 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
2436 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
2437 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
2438 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
2439 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
2440 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
2441 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
2443 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
2445 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
2448 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
2449 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
2450 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
2451 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
2452 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
2453 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
2454 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
2455 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
2456 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
2457 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
2458 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
2459 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
2460 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
2461 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
2462 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
2463 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
2464 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
2465 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
2466 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
2467 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
2468 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
2469 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
2471 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
2473 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
2476 medium, high, emergency.
2477 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
2478 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
2479 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
2480 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
2481 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
2484 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
2485 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
2486 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
2488 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
2489 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
2490 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
2491 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
2492 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
2493 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
2494 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
2497 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
2499 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
2502 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
2503 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
2504 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
2506 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
2507 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
2508 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
2509 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
2510 debian/rules to do this
2511 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
2512 patches are incorporated upstream
2513 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
2514 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
2515 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
2516 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
2517 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
2518 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
2520 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
2521 system closes: Bug#91249
2522 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
2523 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
2524 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
2525 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
2526 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
2527 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
2528 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
2529 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
2530 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
2531 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
2532 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
2533 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
2534 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
2536 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
2538 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
2541 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
2542 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
2543 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
2545 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
2546 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
2547 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
2549 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
2552 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
2554 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
2557 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
2558 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
2559 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
2560 package for the time being
2561 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
2562 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
2563 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
2564 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
2565 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
2566 * Rename all .text files as .txt
2567 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
2568 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
2569 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
2570 Build-Depends arch syntax
2571 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
2573 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
2574 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
2576 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
2577 from policy maintenance duties.
2578 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
2579 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
2581 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
2583 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2587 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2589 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2592 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2593 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2594 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2595 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2596 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2597 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2598 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2599 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2600 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2601 minor version number for this
2602 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2603 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2604 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2605 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2606 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2607 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2608 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2609 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2610 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2612 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2614 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2617 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2618 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2619 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2620 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2622 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2624 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2625 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2626 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2627 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2628 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2629 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2630 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2631 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2632 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2633 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2634 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2635 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2636 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2637 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2638 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2639 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2642 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2644 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2647 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2649 * Document the Enhances relationship
2650 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2651 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2652 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2653 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2654 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2655 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2657 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2659 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2660 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2661 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2662 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2664 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2665 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2666 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2667 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2668 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2670 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2672 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2675 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2676 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2678 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2679 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2680 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2681 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2682 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2683 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2684 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2685 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2686 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2688 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2690 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2692 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2695 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2696 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2697 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2698 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2699 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2700 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2701 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2702 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2703 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2704 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2705 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2706 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2707 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2708 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2709 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2710 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2711 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2712 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2713 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2714 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2715 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2717 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2718 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2722 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2725 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2726 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2727 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2728 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2729 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2730 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2731 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2732 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2733 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2734 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2735 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2736 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2737 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2738 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2739 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2740 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2741 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2742 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2743 list closes: Bug#53756
2744 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2745 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2746 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2747 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2748 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2749 policy closes: Bug#53760
2750 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2751 policy closes: Bug#53761
2752 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2753 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2754 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2755 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2756 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2757 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2758 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2759 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2760 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2761 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2762 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2764 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2765 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2766 to install with older fileutils.
2767 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2768 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2769 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2770 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2772 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2773 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2775 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2777 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2780 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2782 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2784 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2787 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2789 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2792 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2795 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2797 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2799 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2801 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2804 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2806 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2808 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2811 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2812 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2813 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2814 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2815 directoried (closes: #41547)
2816 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2817 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2818 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2819 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2820 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2821 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2822 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2823 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2824 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2825 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2826 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2828 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2829 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2830 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2831 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2832 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2833 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2834 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2836 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2837 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2838 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2839 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2841 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2843 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2845 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2846 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2848 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2850 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2853 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2855 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2857 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2860 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2862 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2863 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2864 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2865 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2866 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2867 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2868 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2869 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2870 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2871 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2872 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2873 this closes: Bug#38612
2874 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2875 before. closes: Bug#40864
2877 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2879 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2882 officially uploaded.
2883 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2885 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2886 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2887 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2889 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2890 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2891 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2892 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2893 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2894 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2896 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2897 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2898 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2900 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2902 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2903 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2904 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2905 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2906 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2908 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2910 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2913 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2914 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2915 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2916 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2917 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2918 there). closes: Bug#34233
2919 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2920 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2921 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2922 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2923 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2925 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2927 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2930 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2931 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2932 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2935 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2936 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2937 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2938 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2939 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2942 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2943 number. closes: BUG#25911
2945 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2946 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2947 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2948 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2949 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2950 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2952 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2953 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2954 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2957 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2958 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2959 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2961 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2962 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2963 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2964 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2966 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2967 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2968 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2970 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2972 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2973 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2974 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2975 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2976 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2977 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2978 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2979 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2982 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2984 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2985 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2988 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2990 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2994 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2996 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2999 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
3000 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
3001 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
3002 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
3003 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
3004 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
3005 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
3007 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
3008 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
3010 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
3012 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3014 * non-maintainer release
3015 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
3016 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
3018 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
3019 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
3020 * no content changes
3021 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
3023 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
3025 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3029 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
3031 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
3035 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
3036 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
3037 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
3039 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
3040 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
3042 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
3043 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
3044 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
3045 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
3047 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
3048 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
3049 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
3050 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
3051 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
3052 and restart options and to comply with the console message
3053 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
3055 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
3056 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
3057 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
3060 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
3061 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
3062 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
3064 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
3065 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
3066 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
3068 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3069 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
3071 * New version numbering scheme:
3073 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
3074 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
3075 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
3078 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
3079 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
3080 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
3081 differ between the manuals.
3083 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
3084 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
3085 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
3086 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
3088 * Packaging changes:
3090 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
3091 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
3093 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
3095 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
3097 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
3101 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
3102 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
3103 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
3105 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
3106 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
3109 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
3110 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
3111 file extension as the referenced file
3113 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
3114 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
3116 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
3117 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
3118 start, stop, restart, force-reload
3119 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
3122 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
3123 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
3124 be installed into /etc/cron.d
3126 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
3127 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
3128 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
3129 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
3132 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
3133 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
3136 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
3137 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
3138 reasonable default configuration
3140 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
3141 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
3142 by all news servers and clients
3144 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
3145 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
3146 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
3147 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
3148 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
3150 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
3151 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
3154 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
3156 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3157 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
3159 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
3162 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
3163 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
3165 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
3166 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
3168 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
3170 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
3172 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
3175 - X library package is now called xlib6g
3176 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3177 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
3179 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
3181 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
3182 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
3183 * Don't use debstd anymore
3185 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
3187 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
3190 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
3191 contrib/non-free policy
3192 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
3193 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
3194 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
3195 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
3196 - new section about `Daemons'
3197 - updated section about `Configuration files'
3198 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
3199 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
3200 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3201 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
3202 * Paper about libc6 migration:
3203 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
3204 * SGML source code included in package
3205 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
3207 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
3209 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
3212 - completely reworked structure
3213 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
3214 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
3215 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
3216 - removed all those ugly footnotes
3217 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
3218 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
3219 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
3220 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
3221 - mention "orphaned packages"
3222 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
3223 distributions' policy
3224 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
3225 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
3226 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
3227 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
3228 - added section about arch spec strings
3229 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
3230 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
3231 - added section about "menus"
3232 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
3233 the new documentation policy soon
3234 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
3235 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
3237 - added section about editors and pagers
3238 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
3239 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
3240 - added section about device files
3241 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
3242 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
3243 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
3245 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
3246 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
3247 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
3248 - Added new section about obsolete names
3249 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
3250 * Fixed package's description
3252 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
3254 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
3258 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
3260 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
3263 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
3264 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
3265 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
3267 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
3269 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
3272 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
3273 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
3275 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
3276 and upload it "byhand" too.
3278 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
3280 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
3284 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
3285 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
3286 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
3287 functionality must not have the same name.
3288 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
3289 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
3290 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
3291 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
3292 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
3293 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
3294 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
3296 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
3297 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
3298 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
3299 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
3300 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
3301 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
3302 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
3303 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
3306 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
3308 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
3310 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
3312 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
3313 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
3314 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
3315 a package into. (Guy Maor)
3316 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
3319 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
3321 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
3323 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
3325 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
3326 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
3327 description of deb file format.
3328 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
3329 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
3331 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
3333 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
3334 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
3336 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
3338 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
3340 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
3341 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
3342 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
3343 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
3344 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
3345 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
3346 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
3347 packages in section on Procedure
3348 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
3349 a package maintainer
3350 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
3351 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
3352 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
3354 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
3355 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
3356 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
3357 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
3358 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
3359 on various shlib files
3360 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
3361 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
3362 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
3364 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
3366 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
3368 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
3369 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
3370 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
3372 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
3373 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
3374 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
3375 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
3376 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
3378 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
3380 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
3382 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
3384 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
3386 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
3387 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
3388 compatibility go in contrib.
3390 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
3391 instructions in policy manual.
3392 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
3395 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
3397 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
3399 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
3400 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
3401 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
3402 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
3404 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
3405 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
3408 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
3410 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
3412 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
3413 * More detail about changelog format names.
3415 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
3416 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
3420 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
3422 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
3424 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
3426 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
3428 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
3430 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
3432 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
3434 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
3435 * More verbosity about netiquette.
3436 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
3438 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
3440 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
3442 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
3444 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
3446 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
3450 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100