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debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
Closes: #436105
* Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Closes: #561413
* Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
Closes: #218897
* Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
* Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #509932
* Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #400322
* Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Closes: #402721
* Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
Closes: #475101
* Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Closes: #104373
* Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #186102
* Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Closes: #184064
* Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
Closes: #509933
* Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #589609
* Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Closes: #232448
* Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
Closes: #445203
* Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
Closes: #477240
* Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Closes: #555977
* Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
package.
* Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
* Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
* Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
references to fields in control files to use "control field"
uniformly.
* Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
* Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
* Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
* Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
[ Bill Allombert ]
* Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
looking .txt file.
Closes: #567845
* Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
* Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
and distribution license' (three times).
Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Closes: #566220
* extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
ranges.
Proposed by Santiago Vila
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #582495
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #578854
* Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #530687
* Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #562506
* Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #224509
* Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
Closes: #569174
* Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Closes: #284340
* Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Closes: #478295
* Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Closes: #555978
* Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #347581
* Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #575639
* Policy: Update Format control field documentation
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
Closes: #547272
* Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Closes: #560411
* Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
Closes: #579457
* Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #579461
* Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
* Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
* Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
* Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
* Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
* Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
* Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
* Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
README.html. (Closes: #584521)
* Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
* Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
* Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
* Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
* Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
"Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
(Closes: #586163)
* Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Bill Allombert ]
* Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
Proposed by Jari Aalto.
Closes: #544353
* Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
Proposed by Enrico Zini.
Closes: #550192
[ Manoj Srivastava ]
* [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
pointing this out.
* [c74ac74]:
Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
Wording: Steve Langasek.
Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
Seconded: Julien Cristau
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
Closes: #542865
* [7ac3ee6]:
virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
Wording: Manoj Srivastava
Seconded: Russ Allbery
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Closes: #518199
* [8fd91a0]
README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
Wording: Manoj Srivastava
Seconded: Russ Allbery
Closes: #545548
* [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
* [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
Wording: Manoj Srivastava
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Closes: #556972
This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
* [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
* [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Closes: #391836
Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
- Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
- Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
- Correct support of /etc/crontab
- Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
ranges, step values
- Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
* Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
(Closes: #552757)
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Closes: #530967
* Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #527871
* Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Closes: #514919
* Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Closes: #519941
* Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #522217
* Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #493007
* Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
Closes: #537707
* Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #533852
* Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #538665
* Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Closes: #525190
* Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
* Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
* Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
* Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
* Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
* Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
* Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
add more details about the contents of the Description field in
a *.changes file.
* Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
Source field descriptions.
* Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
* Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
description says otherwise.
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Closes: #206684
* Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
Closes: #522219
* Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #522364
* Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
Closes: #522218
* Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
- Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
- Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
* Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
(Closes: #519706)
[ Colin Watson ]
* The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
* Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
Closes: #533257
* Policy: State requirements for source package names
Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Closes: #525151
* Add myself to Uploaders.
[ Bill Allombert ]
* Add myself to Uploaders.
* Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
* debian/rules:
- use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
`dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
- fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Closes: #426877
* Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #489460
* Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Closes: #241333
* Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #143941
* Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #416450
* Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #473019
* Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #479080
* Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
Closes: #470994
* Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Closes: #513955
* Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
Closes: #514326
* Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #446712
* Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
* Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
* Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
Contract. (Closes: #473439)
* Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
* Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
* Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
* Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
* Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
* Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
status on success to avoid double-negatives.
* Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
* Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
fewer packages.
* Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
links was completed long ago.
* Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
* Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
Millan (Closes: #209008).
* Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
(Closes: #430649).
* Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
(Closes: #379150).
* Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
(Closes: #431813).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
* Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
* Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
(Closes: #442070).
* Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
/usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
* Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
(Closes: #65577).
* Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
Küster (Closes: #403391).
* Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
* Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
* Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #186700, #458910
* Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Closes: #480551
* Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
* Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
* Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
* Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
Closes: #481640
* Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
Closes: #481954
* Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
* Add an md5sums control file.
* Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
* Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
* Remove more temporary files created by the build.
* Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
currently part of policy.
* Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
* Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
* Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
and debian/rules.
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
* Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
/bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
* Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
Allombert (Closes: #361418).
* Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
* Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
* The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
and Marco d'Itri.
* Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
virtual packages.
* Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
* Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
(Closes: #431813).
* Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
* Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
list?" (Closes: #412634).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
* Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
* Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
* Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
(ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
* Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
debconf specification.
* Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
* Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
* Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
(Closes: #375728).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
(Closes: #376104).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
* Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
(Closes: #377215).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
/usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
* Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
Jackson (Closes: #379630).
* Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
* Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
* Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
(Closes: #379974).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
(Closes: #386178).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
* Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to JordÃ
Polo (Closes: #372497).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
(Closes: #372522).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
* Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
Huehner (Closes: #366032).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
(Closes: #372148).
* Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
* Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
* Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Revert the cgi-lib change.
* Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
(Closes: #328951).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
* Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
doing so. (Closes: #329762).
* Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
* Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
(Closes: #364983).
* Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
* Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
"Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
* Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
(Closes: #365323).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
(Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
* Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
* Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
* Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
* Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
licenses. (Closes: #355263).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
(Closes: #357613).
* Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
* Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
Hess (Closes: #362247).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
to be on. (Closes: #362975).
* Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
(Closes: #341232).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
(Closes: #349010).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
* debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Manoj ]
* Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
* Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
* Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
(Closes: #334913).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
"rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
* Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
(Closes: #315470).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
* Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
(Closes: #313626).
* Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
Manoj:
* Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
* Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
(Closes: #260092).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
*
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
Robinson (Closes: #284967).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
(Closes: #286549).
* Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
(Closes: #291026).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
* Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
(Closes: #146023).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
* Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
* Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
* Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
* Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
Manoj:
* [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
* Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
* Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
* Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
* [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
closes: Bug#202054
* Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
this section. closes: Bug#248618
* Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
* Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
* Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
* Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
(Closes: #252392).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
* Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
(Closes: #252086).
Josip:
* Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
* Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
closes: #50565.
* Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
* Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
* Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
* Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
closes: #75508.
* Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
source tarballs, closes: #79210.
Andi:
* sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
* fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
* manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
* language adjustment. Closes: #227762
* added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
Closes: #185943, #237049
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
Josip:
* Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
closes: #193748.
Manoj:
* Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
* Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
* Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
--oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
running. closes: Bug#187250
* invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
* Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
* [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
user closes: Bug#176506
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
Josip:
* Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
+ Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
deb-building toolchain.
+ Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
+ Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
sections about changelog files.
Manoj:
* Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
* Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
* [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
closes: Bug#174982
* Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
* [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
* [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
* Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
* Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
* Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
* Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
* Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
* updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
for the restructuring
-- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
Josip:
* Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
closes: #182792.
* Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
* Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
* Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
* Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
* Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
Manoj:
* Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
* Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
* Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
closes: Bug#184518
* Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
* Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
-- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
Josip:
* Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
* Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
* Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
closes: #174048
* Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
* Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
closes: #103459
* Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
* Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
offtopic stuff, too.
* When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
script should start it, closes: #60979
* Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
"should", closes: #170019
* Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
* Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
* Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
* Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
closes: #183544
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
Manoj
* Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
postsint. closes: Bug#120585
* Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
* Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
* This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
closes: Bug#164035
* No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
* Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
* Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
* Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
* Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
Josip
* Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
file, closes: Bug#65764
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
* Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
* Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
* Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
* Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
* Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
* Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
* Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
details. closes: Bug#133030
* Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
* Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
parts of Bug#161455.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed some broken hrefs in links
* No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
* Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
* Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
* Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
not. closes: Bug#139820
* Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
* Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
* Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
* Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
* we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
special field in the control file (and these should be added only
after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
* Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
closes: Bug#109672
* Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
closes: Bug#146756
* using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
* Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
* Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
* Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
* Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
* The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
* Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
* Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
* Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
* Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
* Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
* fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
* Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
closes: Bug#143770
* Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
* Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
* Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
* Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
* provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
* We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
closes: Bug#150456
* We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
* Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
* Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
* Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
* Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
* Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
* Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
* Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
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 Sébastien
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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