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debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
* ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
* Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
* Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
* Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
* fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
* Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
* Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
* Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
* While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
* Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
* Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
* Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
medium, high, emergency.
* Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
* [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
* [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
closes: Bug#102199
* [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
* Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
* [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
closes: Bug#100631
* [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
* The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
* Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
closes: Bug#105538
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
* Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
3.0.0 onwards
* Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
* This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
* Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
* Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
debian/rules to do this
* Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
patches are incorporated upstream
* Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
* Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
* Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
clearer (add "for use by scripts")
* Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
* Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
closes: Bug#89674
* Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
system closes: Bug#91249
* Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
* Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
* Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
* OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
* The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
* The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
* Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
* Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
* Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
* Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
* Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
* [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
* [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
* Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
Julian's fixes:
* Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
* Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
* Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
closes: Bug#86436
* Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
closes: Bug#87233
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
* Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
* Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
package for the time being
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
* Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
* Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
* Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
* Correct typos etc. in policy-process
* Rename all .text files as .txt
* Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
* Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
* [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
Build-Depends arch syntax
* [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
configuration files
* Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
version.
* Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
from policy maintenance duties.
* fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sbastien
Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
* Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
* Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
* No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
* Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
minor version number for this
* Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
* Clarify error conditions for package installation
(Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
* Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
* Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
* Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
* Removed bashism from debian/rules
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
* More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
<cts@nikocity.de>
* Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
closes: Bug#83924
* Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
* Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
* [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
* Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
* Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
xutils closes: Bug#82966
* Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
* Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
* Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
* Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
* Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
closes: Bug#80506
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
* The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
this version.
* Document the Enhances relationship
* Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
* Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
policy. closes: Bug#53496
* Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
closes: Bug#53700
* Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
* We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
* makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
* Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
closes: Bug#59403
* Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
* init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
* Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
* Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
going to be buggy.
closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
* Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
* Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
* Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
* Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
* Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
* [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
* Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
closes: Bug#77404
* Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
* [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
policy. closes: Bug#64437
* [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
* [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
* Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
* proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
* proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
* new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
* [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
* [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
* the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
* [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
* [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
* [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
* [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
closes: Bug#50832
* [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
* We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
* packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
* [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
* [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
* [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
* [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
* [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
* Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
* Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
* Documented that the library before the symlink hack
(which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
alternative closes: Bug#53755
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
list closes: Bug#53756
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
policy closes: Bug#53760
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
policy closes: Bug#53761
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
that use X closes: Bug#53762
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
* Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
* Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
* Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
* Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
* Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
* Other changes:
* Added policy-process to document current procedures.
* Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
to install with older fileutils.
* Installed FHS version 2.1
* Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
* Added FHS details to copyright file
* Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
file.
* Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
* Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
* Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
#50502)
* More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
#45561, #42447, #48570)
* Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
* Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
* Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
directoried (closes: #41547)
* FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
* Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
* Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
* Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
* Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
* Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
* Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
* Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
package criteria (closes: #45318)
* Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
#41829)
* Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
* Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
* Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
* Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
* Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
* Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
* Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
#40766, #40767)
* Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
* Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
* packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
* The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
(closes: #17621)
* Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
#19179)
* Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
#41095)
* s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
* Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
-- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
* Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* A few typos and omissions corrected
* Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
list.
* Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
* Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
.la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
* The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
* Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
* The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
* Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
* Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
this closes: Bug#38612
* Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
before. closes: Bug#40864
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
officially uploaded.
* Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
.deb packages)
* Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
* [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
closes: Bug#21969
* [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
/usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
footnote. closes: Bug#28747
* [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
* [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
closes: Bug# 37342
* [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
Window System) closes: Bug#38212
* [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
closes: Bug#37713
* [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
closes: Bug#37389
* [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
* Updated the upgrading checklist.
* updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
* Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
* Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
* Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
there). closes: Bug#34233
* Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
* Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
* AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
/etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
* Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
accordingly.
What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
in the number gap.
This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
number. closes: BUG#25911
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
conventions. closes: BUG#21185
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
closes: BUG#7890
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
/usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
* The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
* Make the package optional, not extra.
* Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
it is, really).
* Re did the control files, making them more robust
* re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
by putting in a layer of abstractions.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
* New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
-- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
* policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
* policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
* debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
* policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
* policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
or date anywhere
* debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
* bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
-- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* non-maintainer release
* rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
annoying.)
* bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
* no content changes
* debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
-- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Orphaned package
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
- Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
+ improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
- Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
+ fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
- Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
+ symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
(cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
- Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
+ Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
+ Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
+ Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
and restart options and to comply with the console message
standard (fixes:bug#19216)
- Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
+ Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
package.
- Updated section 4.9 Games:
+ manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
(cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
- Removed one example reference to the current standards version
- Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
a recompiled manual uses the same release date
* Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
- Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
* New version numbering scheme:
- The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
scheme.
- The first three digits of the version number specify the
`Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
differ between the manuals.
If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
`Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
* Packaging changes:
- Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
- Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
- Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
+ /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
+ scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
interpreter
+ scripts which create files in world-writable directories
(e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
the directory
- Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
+ symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
file extension as the referenced file
- Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
+ /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
- Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
+ all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
start, stop, restart, force-reload
+ the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
the service
- Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
+ cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
be installed into /etc/cron.d
- Updated section 3.7 Menus:
+ removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
(the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
obsolete)
- New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
+ details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
handled
- New section 3.9 Environment variables:
+ no program must depend on environment variables to get a
reasonable default configuration
- New section 4.6 News system configuration:
+ /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
by all news servers and clients
- Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
+ programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
+ if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
- Updated section 4.9 Games:
+ games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
non-X games
- Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
* Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
- added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
* Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
changelog file
* Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
* Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
* Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
- X library package is now called xlib6g
* Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
- Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
lambdamoo-server
* Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
(fixes #13790)
* Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
the draft official policy (which is not the case)
* Don't use debstd anymore
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
- reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
contrib/non-free policy
- call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
- refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
- changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
- new section about `Daemons'
- updated section about `Configuration files'
- MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
- fixed typos and grammatical errors
* Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
- renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
* Paper about libc6 migration:
- fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
* SGML source code included in package
* don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
- completely reworked structure
- moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
- moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
- removed all those ugly footnotes
- new example for "reload" in section about console messages
- mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
- don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
- rewrote abstract and section introductions
- mention "orphaned packages"
- maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
distributions' policy
- putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
- rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
- added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
- added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
- added section about arch spec strings
- rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
- included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
- added section about "menus"
- removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
the new documentation policy soon
- incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
- removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
#11008)
- added section about editors and pagers
- added note about Package priorities and dependencies
- added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
- added section about device files
- don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
- app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
- lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
etc.)
* Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
- Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
- Added new section about obsolete names
* Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
* Fixed package's description
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
* Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
* Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
* Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
* Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
"byhand".
* Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
and upload it "byhand" too.
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial Release.
* New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
* Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
* Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
* Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
functionality must not have the same name.
* Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
* Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
* Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
* Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
* Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
for libraries)
* Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
<osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
* Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
"strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
* Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
"/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
* Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
fixes bug #6130.
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
* Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
Programmer's manual
* Corrected the contact email addresses again.
* Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
* Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
a package into. (Guy Maor)
* Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
Programmer 6.1.
-- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
* Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
Guy Maor and others
* correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
* footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
description of deb file format.
* addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
* Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
shared libraries.
* Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
(Bug #2481)
* Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
* Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
-- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
* Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
* Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
* Added section headings for copyright criteria
* Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
* Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
static libraries. (Bug #5299)
* Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
packages in section on Procedure
* Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
a package maintainer
* A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
* Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
* Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
* Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
* A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
* Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
on various shlib files
* Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
* Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
-- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
* Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
and can't easily be made to work reliably).
* Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
* Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
* Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
* debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
* Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
* Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
* Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
* Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
* Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
* Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
compatibility go in contrib.
* Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
instructions in policy manual.
* Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
package in contrib.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
* varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
* Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
* When to byte-compile Elisp files.
* Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
* Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
* Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
* Typo fixes.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
* Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
* More detail about changelog format names.
* Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
* Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
* Typos corrected.
* Released.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
* Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
* Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
* Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
* Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
* More verbosity about netiquette.
* Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
* Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
* Draft releases.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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