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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-14 13:42:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-14 13:42:30 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2.117.0.upstream/2.117.0upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/data/debian-policy/releases.json b/data/debian-policy/releases.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb54489 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/debian-policy/releases.json @@ -0,0 +1,6029 @@ +{ + "preamble" : { + "cargo" : "releases", + "title" : "Debian Policy Releases" + }, + "releases" : [ + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Update alternatives system priorities for window managers", + " Wording: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #975631", + " * Policy: Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #992136", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Policy: Add new-version argument to several maintainer script calls", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #823256", + " * Policy: Essential packages must work only if previously configured", + " Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>", + " Seconded: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>", + " Closes: #1020267", + " * Prefer \"portion\" to \"stanza\" when describing parts of the Vcs-Git", + " header to avoid confusion with blocks of fields in deb822. Thanks to", + " Charles Plessy for pointing out the inconsistency.", + "", + " [ Guillem Jover ]", + " * Terminology fixes. (Closes: #1020248)", + " - Refer to blocks of fields in deb822 files as stanzas, not", + " paragraphs. This aligns terminology with dpkg and reduces confusion", + " with text paragraphs found in, for example, the Description field.", + " * Policy: Replace references to PGP with OpenPGP. (Closes: #1020243)", + " * Whitespace and quoting fixes. (Closes: #1020238)", + " - Remove trailing whitespace and convert tabs to spaces in all files.", + " - Avoid use of unbalanced single quotes.", + " * copyright-format: Formatting improvements. (Closes: #1020241)", + " - Put Source after Format in examples.", + " - Reformat GPL examples to be more compact.", + " - Use URLs rather than postal addresses in GPL examples.", + " - Move the comment about where the GPL can be found on Debian systems", + " to a separate Comment block in examples, rather than including it in", + " the License text.", + " - Apply wrap-and-sort -ast formatting to Files fields in the examples.", + "", + " [ Daniel Shahaf ]", + " * Add an English description of the format of bug closers in the", + " changelog file, alongside the Perl-compatible regular expression.", + " (Closes: #953911)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 823256, + 953911, + 975631, + 992136, + 1020238, + 1020241, + 1020243, + 1020248, + 1020267 + ], + "epoch" : 1671244904, + "timestamp" : "2022-12-17T02:41:44Z", + "version" : "4.6.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * d/control: Add Homepage field (Closes: #1012879).", + " Thanks to Benjamin Drung for the suggestion.", + " * Upgrading checklist for 4.5.1: apply wording change from 07f1b39", + " (Closes: #1017095)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 1012879, + 1017095 + ], + "epoch" : 1660436014, + "timestamp" : "2022-08-14T00:13:34Z", + "version" : "4.6.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: Allow non-64-bit packages to install to /usr/lib64", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #992601", + " * Policy: Define 'upstream' & document several version conventions", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #542288, #850729", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add {default,}dbus-system-bus (Closes: #998063).", + " Thanks to Simon McVittie for the patch.", + " * Update 9.7.2 and 9.7.3 for package split of bin:mime-support into", + " bin:media-types and bin:mailcap (Closes: #1008480).", + " Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.", + "", + " * Fix several problems with footnote regarding the autobuilders and", + " build dependency alternatives (Closes: #999826).", + " Thanks to Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues for the report and patch.", + " * Use syntax highlighting for some source code blocks (Closes: #999566).", + " Thanks to Stéphane Blondon for the patch." + ], + "closes" : [ + 542288, + 850729, + 992601, + 998063, + 999566, + 999826, + 1008480 + ], + "epoch" : 1652292179, + "timestamp" : "2022-05-11T18:02:59Z", + "version" : "4.6.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.6.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Fix header of upgrading checklist entry for last release (Closes: #992414).", + " Thanks to Scott Talbert and Drew Parsons for reporting the problem." + ], + "closes" : [ + 992414.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1629318110, + "timestamp" : "2021-08-18T20:21:50Z", + "version" : "4.6.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.6.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Allow manpages to be included in the dependencies of packages", + " Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #983657", + " * Policy: Support for subpaths in Vcs-Git", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>", + " Closes: #932696", + " * 4.4: Fix changelog format: needs an extra space before sign-off", + " (Closes: #976301).", + " Thanks to Anatoli Babenia for reporting the problem.", + " * autopkgtest: Update variable name ADTTMP->AUTOPKGTEST_TMP (Closes: #989581).", + " Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly for reporting the problem.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Policy: Add new encouraged keyword, make keywords consistent", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #944920", + " * Clarify that no package may install files in /usr/lib64. The previous", + " wording implied this restriction only applied to 64-bit packages.", + " * Reserve the /etc/rcn.d directories for the init-system-helpers package", + " rather than the sysvinit package, reflecting a change already made in", + " the archive." + ], + "closes" : [ + 932696, + 944920, + 976301, + 983657, + 989581 + ], + "epoch" : 1629256002, + "timestamp" : "2021-08-18T03:06:42Z", + "version" : "4.6.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: Relax requirements on copying copyright notices into d/copyright", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>", + " Seconded: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>", + " Closes: #955005", + " * Policy: Forbid vendor-specific series files", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>", + " Closes: #959909", + " * Policy: Clarification about colons in version numbers", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #971023", + " * Replace `/usr/share/package/copyright` -> `/usr/share/PACKAGE/copyright`.", + " Thanks to Guillem Jover for the suggestion.", + " * Fix manpage section in reference to systemd.unit(5) (Closes: #973491).", + " Thanks to Martin Schwarz for the report.", + " * Makefile: Always use UTC date (Closes: #974911).", + " Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian for the patch." + ], + "closes" : [ + 955005, + 959909, + 971023, + 973491, + 974911 + ], + "epoch" : 1605571543, + "timestamp" : "2020-11-17T00:05:43Z", + "version" : "4.5.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Add a sample grep command for finding copyright notices in upstream", + " source code to an existing footnote in section 2.3.", + " * 3.2.1: tweak wording to avoid suggesting that Policy forbids using", + " Debian revisions for packages using a native source package format", + " (Closes: #953629).", + " Thank you to Ian Jackson for the suggestion.", + " * Switch back dh_linktree -> dh_sphinxdoc now that #658238 has been", + " resolved (Closes: #968664)", + " - Update substvars usage", + " - Drop linktree config", + " - Drop ${misc:Depends} -> ${linktree:Recommends} hack from d/rules.", + " We now just have ${sphinxdoc:Depends} in the Recommends: field." + ], + "closes" : [ + 953629, + 968664 + ], + "epoch" : 1597861491, + "timestamp" : "2020-08-19T18:24:51Z", + "version" : "4.5.0.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.5.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #959005).", + " Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report." + ], + "closes" : [ + 959005.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1588108818, + "timestamp" : "2020-04-28T21:20:18Z", + "version" : "4.5.0.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.5.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Rename section \"Convenience copies of code\" -> \"Embedded code copies\"", + " (Closes: #955036).", + " * Use xelatex in Sphinx conf to deal with Unicode chars in input", + " (Closes: #955083).", + " - Add build-deps on texlive-xetex, fonts-freefont-otf, xindy." + ], + "closes" : [ + 955036, + 955083 + ], + "epoch" : 1585337678, + "timestamp" : "2020-03-27T19:34:38Z", + "version" : "4.5.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Clarify the footnote explaining why packages should not depend on X", + " fonts. Thanks, Stephen Kitt.", + " * Fix error in Perl example for the gain root command. Thanks, Niels", + " Thykier. (Closes: #949007)", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Packages including daemons should ship systemd units", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #941198", + " * Policy: New package usernames should begin with an underscore", + " Wording: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #949390", + " * Policy: Revise init script policy in light of GR result", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #948115", + " - This change involved changing a number of Sphinx anchor names. This", + " may break some external links into Policy.", + " * Fix 'day-of week'.", + " Thanks to Jakub Wilk." + ], + "closes" : [ + 941198, + 948115, + 949007, + 949390 + ], + "epoch" : 1579549029, + "timestamp" : "2020-01-20T19:37:09Z", + "version" : "4.5.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.4.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Drop implementation details of sysvinit runlevels", + " Wording: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #941194", + " See also #943583.", + " * Fix \"set -e\" extraneous whitespace (Closes: #943880).", + " Thanks Sven Joachim for the patch.", + " * Fix 'multple' typo (Closes: #944407).", + " Thanks Ansgar for the patch.", + " * Improve some phrasing in 7.8 (Closes: #944325).", + " Thank you to Nicholas D Steeves for pointing out the problem and Russ", + " Allbery for the new text.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Remove mention of the old Packaging Manual from the package", + " description. This is ancient history and no longer likely to be", + " helpful. Thanks, Holger Levsen. (Closes: #941835)", + " * Add missing close brackets to the examples in the Diversions", + " appendix. Thanks, Abou Al Montacir.", + " * Add explicit :manpage: markup to links to manual pages.", + " * Fix anchor syntax for s-signalingreboot section.", + " * Fix broken markup in a footnote about sponsored uploads. Thanks,", + " Guillem Jover. (Closes: #944332)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 941194, + 941835, + 943880, + 944325, + 944332, + 944407 + ], + "epoch" : 1575076152, + "timestamp" : "2019-11-30T01:09:12Z", + "version" : "4.4.1.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.4.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Add /run/reboot-required change to the upgrading checklist", + " (Closes: #941475)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 941475.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1570112996, + "timestamp" : "2019-10-03T14:29:56Z", + "version" : "4.4.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.4.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: Only one Vcs-<type> field is permitted", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #931975", + " * Policy: Document /run/reboot-required mechanism", + " Wording: Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Closes: #919507", + " * Policy: doc-base now optional, not recommended", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #910783", + " * Copyright format: state syntactical restrictions on Files: field", + " Wording: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #688481" + ], + "closes" : [ + 688481, + 910783, + 919507, + 931975 + ], + "epoch" : 1569780709, + "timestamp" : "2019-09-29T18:11:49Z", + "version" : "4.4.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.4.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #932359).", + " Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report.", + " * Clarify using more than one VCS-* field.", + " Thanks to Guillem Jover for reporting the problem and Russ Allbery for", + " the patch." + ], + "closes" : [ + 932359.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1563480069, + "timestamp" : "2019-07-18T20:01:09Z", + "version" : "4.4.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Recommend use of dh", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>", + " Closes: #930666", + " * Policy: Permit -b in Vcs-Hg as well as Vcs-Git", + " Wording: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #897217, #920355", + " * Policy: Document versioned Provides:", + " Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #761219", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add logind, default-logind", + " Wording: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #917431", + " * Add text to header of the virtual packages list describing the", + " \"(versioned)\" annotation.", + " * Fix reference to FHS section in Policy 9.1.2.", + " Thanks to Juuso \"Linda\" Lapinlampi for the patch.", + " (Closes: #922654)", + " * Process: Rewrite description of 'obsolete' usertag.", + " * Process: Add 'stalled' usertag.", + " * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the", + " copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file", + " (Closes: #928199).", + " This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Fix formatting of the debian_revision explanation in Policy 5.6.12.", + " Thanks to Emmanuel Arias for the patch." + ], + "closes" : [ + 761219, + 897217, + 917431, + 920355, + 922654, + 928199, + 930666 + ], + "epoch" : 1562510441, + "timestamp" : "2019-07-07T14:40:41Z", + "version" : "4.4.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.3.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Add link to jenkins.debian.net build of Policy (Closes: #921963).", + " Thanks, Holger Levsen.", + " * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #921889).", + " Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report." + ], + "closes" : [ + 921889, + 921963 + ], + "epoch" : 1551311991, + "timestamp" : "2019-02-27T23:59:51Z", + "version" : "4.3.0.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.3.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #921889).", + " Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report." + ], + "closes" : [ + 921889.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1549757148, + "timestamp" : "2019-02-10T00:05:48Z", + "version" : "4.3.0.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Correct heading in upgrading checklist \"Version 4.2.2\"->\"Version 4.3.0\"." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 1545563464, + "timestamp" : "2018-12-23T11:11:04Z", + "version" : "4.3.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: Update recommendations for stripping binaries and shlibs", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Closes: #188731", + " * Policy: Slightly relax when copyright information need be included verbatim", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #912581", + " * Policy: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree", + " Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #845715", + " * Policy: Packages should not contain a non-default series file", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #850156", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add dbus-session-bus, default-dbus-session-bus", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #833401", + " * In a preexisting footnote, recommend passing -D to strip(1) when", + " stripping static libraries.", + " Thanks to Niels Thykier for the suggestion.", + " * Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.", + " * Convert virtual-package-names-list to YAML (Closes: #914383).", + " Thanks to Jonathan Dowland for the patch.", + " * Append missing '.git' to Vcs-Git." + ], + "closes" : [ + 188731, + 833401, + 845715, + 850156, + 912581, + 914383 + ], + "epoch" : 1545560275, + "timestamp" : "2018-12-23T10:17:55Z", + "version" : "4.3.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.1.5) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.", + " * Replace a 'can' with a 'may' for readability in 7.7 (Closes: #824495).", + " Thanks to Santiago Vila for reporting the problem.", + " * Update location of sample init.d script (Closes: #913295).", + " Thanks to Dmitry Bogatov for the patch.", + " * Document in 1.1 that not all bugs are Policy violations (Closes: #913659).", + " Thanks to Ian Jackson for the patch." + ], + "closes" : [ + 824495, + 913295, + 913659 + ], + "epoch" : 1542472599, + "timestamp" : "2018-11-17T16:36:39Z", + "version" : "4.2.1.5" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Increase ToC depth 3->4 (Closes: #912059)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 912059.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1540665059, + "timestamp" : "2018-10-27T18:30:59Z", + "version" : "4.2.1.4" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Update URI to d-i internals manual (Closes: #906910).", + " Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch.", + " * Crosslink and deduplicate 4.9 and 10.1.", + " These sections both include discussion of the verbosity of build logs", + " and compiler warnings.", + " * Add policy/definition.txt to .gitignore." + ], + "closes" : [ + 906910.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1540064179, + "timestamp" : "2018-10-20T19:36:19Z", + "version" : "4.2.1.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * README.md: drop mention of 'dbnpolicy' UNIX group, which has now been", + " deleted.", + " * Upgrading checklist: drop the word 'maximally', to match the change to", + " section 4.9 made in release 4.2.1.0.", + " * README.md: add steps to add a new language.", + " * Use Sphinx replacements to insert the version and date into index.rst,", + " rather than substituting it in during the build (Closes: #909079).", + " This means that .po files are invalidated slightly less frequently.", + " Thanks to Hideki Yamane for the patch.", + " * Rebuild to update Recommends: field (Closes: #910561)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 909079, + 910561 + ], + "epoch" : 1539120350, + "timestamp" : "2018-10-09T21:25:50Z", + "version" : "4.2.1.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Drop stray colon in 4.9.", + " Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for pointing this out.", + " * New \"Seeking seconds for a patch\" section in README.md.", + " Ralf Treinen suggested recommending that those who propose patches", + " include word diffs and/or side-by-side diffs.", + " * README.md: remove a lot of outdated information, some wordsmithing,", + " and rearrangement to highlight opportunities for contribution.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Add a footnote warning that different SONAMEs of the same shared", + " library cannot always be made safely co-installable, but these", + " exceptions are complex and beyond what Policy can explain.", + " (Closes: #901437)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 901437.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1535920029, + "timestamp" : "2018-09-02T20:27:09Z", + "version" : "4.2.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy & Perl Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'must' -> 'should'", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #906901", + " * Fix inconsistent wording in 4.9 by dropping the word 'maximally'", + " (Closes: #905251).", + " Thanks to several people who pointed out this issue, both in the BTS", + " and in person.", + "", + " * Demote libjs-sphinxdoc hard dependencies to recommendations by using", + " an override_dh_linktree stanza (Closes: #906139).", + " Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian and Sven Joachim for the report and Ian", + " Jackson for suggesting the fix.", + " * README.md improvements:", + " - Add references to salsa:dbnpolicy/policy-l10n-merge-requests-here", + " repo.", + " - Improve the description of the release process (Closes: #905909)", + " Thanks Osamu Aoki for the patch.", + " - Add a link to the new 'by-complexity' BTS view.", + " - Some other small fixes (Closes: #905696).", + " Thanks Helge Kreutzmann for pointing them out.", + " * Update and alphabetise lists of the Policy delegates in various places." + ], + "closes" : [ + 905251, + 905696, + 905909, + 906139, + 906901 + ], + "epoch" : 1535227554, + "timestamp" : "2018-08-25T20:05:54Z", + "version" : "4.2.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Hideki Yamane ]", + " * Partial translation of Policy Manual chs. 1--3 into Japanese.", + " - Add debian-policy-ja binary package.", + " * Infrastructure for translations.", + " - New build dependency on sphinx-intl.", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Switch dh_sphinxdoc->dh_linktree.", + " dh_sphinxdoc gets confused by the use of sphinx-intl.", + " - New build dependency on dh-linktree.", + " * Bump copyright years in d/copyright.", + " * Refer to rST source, not SGML source, in d/copyright.", + " * Add section 1.6, \"Translations\".", + " * Add \"Translation\" subsection to README.md.", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton & Ian Jackson ]", + " * Simplify and rework Hideki's Makefile & dh_{auto_,}install changes." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 1533295914, + "timestamp" : "2018-08-03T11:31:54Z", + "version" : "4.2.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: Standards-Version field is mandatory", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Closes: #886258", + " * Policy: Builds should be verbose & 'terse' DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS flag", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + " Closes: #628515", + " * Policy: Required targets may attempt some network access", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Closes: #813471", + " * Policy: Installation of upstream release notes and changelogs", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Closes: #459427", + "", + " * Add a third paragraph to 1.3.3 encouraging the submission of patches", + " to document new techniques sooner rather than later, while making it", + " clear that updating the Policy Manual should never block making other", + " improvements to Debian.", + " * Tweak wording in a sentence in 1.1.", + " * Add a note to the README about why salsa merge requests are turned off.", + "", + " * Stop installing policy-1.html because Sphinx's singlehtml output is", + " too buggy at present (Closes: #873456, #876075, #879048).", + " See also #877367. Thanks to Paul Wise for switching the web mirrors", + " away from policy-1.html.", + "", + " * license-count: improve regex for some Creative Commons licenses.", + " Thanks Jonathan Dowland for the patch.", + " * Fix some indentation in ch-archive.rst.", + " Thanks Hideki Yamane for the patch." + ], + "closes" : [ + 459427, + 628515, + 813471, + 873456, + 876075, + 879048, + 886258 + ], + "epoch" : 1533174213, + "timestamp" : "2018-08-02T01:43:33Z", + "version" : "4.2.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: Update section 4.1, \"Standards conformance\"", + " Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #901160", + " * Policy: Require d-devel consultation for each epoch bump", + " Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>", + " Closes: #891216", + " * Policy: Document Rules-Requires-Root", + " Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>", + " Closes: #880920", + " * Policy: Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>", + " Closes: #864615", + " * Policy: Update version of FHS from 2.3 to 3.0", + " Wording: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Closes: #787816", + " * Add reference link to section 4.1 to section 5.6.11." + ], + "closes" : [ + 787816, + 864615, + 880920, + 891216, + 901160 + ], + "epoch" : 1530701350, + "timestamp" : "2018-07-04T10:49:10Z", + "version" : "4.1.5.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.4.2) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Fix URL to the alioth lists service in footnote (Closes: #896749).", + " Thanks Martin Zobel-Helas for the report.", + " * Tidy up \"Authors and Maintainers\":", + " - Add subsections to separate the record of the document's history", + " from the description of how it is presently maintained", + " - Correct claims about the role of the manual's maintainers: the", + " Policy Editors actually do have editorial power, thanks to our", + " DPL delegation, but we further delegate this power to the", + " Policy Changes Process." + ], + "closes" : [ + 896749.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1528619533, + "timestamp" : "2018-06-10T08:32:13Z", + "version" : "4.1.4.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Fix some errors in upgrading checklist.", + " Thanks to several people for noticing these.", + " Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for a patch.", + " * Soften wording in upgrading checklist for removal of get-orig-source", + " target.", + " Thanks Helmut Grohne for the new wording.", + " * Fix sample postinst in 9.1.2 to comply with new required permissions", + " for /usr/local (Closes: #895136).", + " Thanks to Niels Thykier for noticing the problem, and for the new", + " sample script.", + " - Reorder 9.1.2 so that details of the permissions requirement appear", + " before the sample postinst.", + " This ensures that the complexity of the sample postinst makes sense", + " to the reader." + ], + "closes" : [ + 895136.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1523117581, + "timestamp" : "2018-04-07T16:13:01Z", + "version" : "4.1.4.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Drop get-orig-source rules target", + " Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Closes: #515856", + " * Policy: Update required permissions for /usr/local", + " Wording: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>", + " Seconded: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #299007", + " * Policy: Document debian/missing-sources", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>", + " Closes: #742364", + " * Policy: Uniqueness of version numbers", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #881431", + " * Update recommendations dh_systemd_* -> dh_installsystemd (Closes: #889167).", + " Thanks Chris Lamb for the report.", + " * Fix some typos (Closes: #886890).", + " Thanks Sebastian Rasmussen for the patch.", + " * Fix some errors in shell script snippets caused by the rST conversion", + " script (Closes: #888437).", + " Thanks Yao Wei for the patch.", + " * Fix version of init-system-helpers required for `defaults-disabled`", + " option from 1.5.0 to 1.50.", + " Thanks to GengYu Rao for noting this on the debian-policy list.", + " * Fix indentation of description of the clean target (Closes: #889960).", + " Thanks Ferenc Wágner for the report.", + "", + " [ Jonathan Nieder ]", + " * Use default-mta instead of exim in dependency example (Closes: #892142).", + " Thanks to Paul Wise for the report." + ], + "closes" : [ + 299007, + 515856, + 742364, + 881431, + 886890, + 888437, + 889167, + 889960, + 892142 + ], + "epoch" : 1522944496, + "timestamp" : "2018-04-05T16:08:16Z", + "version" : "4.1.4.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses", + " Wording: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #859649, #882628", + " * Policy: Clarify when Built-Using should be used", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Closes: #688251", + " * Policy: Use update-rc.d's defaults-disabled instead of DISABLED=yes", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Closes: #522163, #601455, #661496", + " - Also explain how the local administrator can enable/disable", + " autostarting daemons using update-rc.d.", + " * Point Vcs-* fields at salsa.debian.org.", + " * README: update references & URIs alioth->salsa", + " * Maintainer field: \"Debian Policy List\"->\"Debian Policy Editors\"", + " To match our new group on salsa.debian.org.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Policy: Recommend that Vcs-* URLs provide confidentiality", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Closes: #810381", + " * Policy: Clarify that programs may search PATH for editor and pager", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #880992", + " * Policy: Allow libc to install files in /lib64", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #885219", + " * Use the term 'synopsis' consistently in copyright-format. Thanks, Ben", + " Finney. (Closes: #874095)", + " * Fix various minor wording issues and add additional cross-references", + " in copyright-format. Thanks, Ben Finney. (Closes: #874090)", + " * Adapt tools/license-count to run against ftp-master metadata instead", + " of the Lintian lab, add patterns for CC0-1.0, and add some comments on", + " how to run this tool." + ], + "closes" : [ + 522163, + 601455, + 661496, + 688251, + 810381, + 859649, + 874090, + 874095, + 880992, + 882628, + 885219 + ], + "epoch" : 1514412835, + "timestamp" : "2017-12-27T22:13:55Z", + "version" : "4.1.3.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'should' -> 'must'", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>", + " Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>", + " Closes: #683495", + " * Policy: Update where private shared object files may be installed", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Closes: #636383", + " * Policy: Convention for naming packages with potentially offensive content", + " Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org>", + " Closes: #882445", + " * Update links to other formats in 1.2 (Closes: #877674).", + " Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the patch.", + " * Fix duplication in upgrading checklist.", + " /nonexistent as the canonical home directory was listed under 4.1.1", + " and 4.1.0.", + " * Miscellaneous spelling fixes (Closes: #878523).", + " Thanks to Ville Skyttä for the patch.", + " * Drop workarounds in d/rules for the (reopened) dh_sphinxdoc bug #872863.", + " Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for fixing the bug.", + " - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.", + " * Add a footnote documenting limitations on build-dependency", + " alternatives imposed by Debian's autobuilders (Closes: #614807).", + " Thanks to Sean Finney for the patch, and Simon McVittie for reviewing." + ], + "closes" : [ + 614807, + 636383, + 683495, + 877674, + 878523, + 882445 + ], + "epoch" : 1512080585, + "timestamp" : "2017-11-30T22:23:05Z", + "version" : "4.1.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Fix some broken links in singlehtml output (Closes: #877573).", + " Thanks to Paul Wise for pointing out the problem." + ], + "closes" : [ + 877573.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1507090965, + "timestamp" : "2017-10-04T04:22:45Z", + "version" : "4.1.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Add back missing parentheses around the man page section in man page", + " references in the Policy manual, lost in the conversion to", + " reStructuredText. Thanks, Daniel Shahaf.", + " * Revert the contents of the policy.html directory to the multi-page", + " HTML output. (Closes: #872895)", + " * Move the single-page HTML output to policy-1.html, matching the", + " previous file name, and add the supporting _images and _static", + " directories to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy.", + " * Remove the stray policy.html.tar.gz file from the built package.", + " (Closes: #872896)", + " * Simplify the build rules for generating policy.html.", + " * Remove some stray build rules left over from DocBook Policy.", + " * Restructure the document to ensure proper section numbering in info", + " and PDF output except for the appendices. The appendix numbering", + " will require a Sphinx change. (Closes: #872893, #872950)", + " * Rename the info document to debian-policy.info to make it less", + " generic, and update the PNG file names accordingly. (Closes: #872900)", + " * Reformat the shared libraries chapter (8) to move footnotes to the end", + " of the section of their references and use more succinct", + " reStructuredText syntax. Fix some errors in the shlibs syntax and", + " examples introduced by the conversion, and missing newlines in the", + " footnote illustrating alternative templates that were lost in the", + " DocBook translation.", + " * Add a footnote documenting a (complex) command that returns the Debian", + " package name for a shared library. Thanks, Jakub Wilk and Julien", + " Cristau. (Closes: #661928)", + " * Add build dependency on latexmk. (Closes: #873125)", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: debian/changelog must exist in source packages", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>", + " Closes: #683222", + " * Policy: /nonexistent is the canonical non-existent home directory", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Closes: #679751", + " * Policy: Correct the description of Testsuite: field", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #870915", + " Thanks to Ondřej Nový for pointing out the problem.", + " * Fix a typo in 4.1.0 upgrading checklist (Closes: #873819).", + " Thanks, Martin Kepplinger.", + " * Add missing line breaks in summary of the ways in which maintainer", + " scripts may be called (Closes: #874411).", + " Thanks Sébastian Villemot for reporting the issue, and for the patch.", + " * Drop workarounds for dh_sphinxdoc's lack of support for singlehtml.", + " Thanks Dmitry Shachnev for the new support in dh_sphinxdoc.", + " - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common." + ], + "closes" : [ + 661928, + 679751, + 683222, + 870915, + 872893, + 872895, + 872896, + 872900, + 872950, + 873125, + 873819, + 874411 + ], + "epoch" : 1506630466, + "timestamp" : "2017-09-28T20:27:46Z", + "version" : "4.1.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Packages should build reproducibly", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #844431", + " * Policy: Restrictions on the use of /lib64/ and /usr/lib64/", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #630174", + " * Policy: Clarify how `x-terminal-emulator -e` must behave", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #648271", + " * Fix a singular/plural error in 9.6.", + " Thanks to Didier Raboud for pointing out the problem.", + " * Improve release process documentation in README.md.", + " * Policy changes process:", + " - Deprecate usage of the 'issue' usertag", + " It is usually very clear whether an issue is a policy matter, so bugs", + " can be simply closed, or moved to the 'discussion' phase.", + " In the rare case that it's not clear whether the bug is a policy matter,", + " it can remain unclassified, or be tagged 'moreinfo' (see below).", + " - Add policy-specific usage for the 'moreinfo' tag.", + " * tools/policy-bug-report:", + " - Enhance to fetch bugs that have a given usertag or combination of", + " usertags", + " - Improve the lists of bugs generated, for posting to Planet Debian.", + " * Add convention to upgrading checklist for indicating that a policy", + " requirement is covered by Lintian.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Policy: Recommend including the upstream signing key", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>", + " Closes: #732445", + " * Policy: Clearly allow non-default alternative non-free dependencies", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Closes: #587279", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery & Sean Whitton ]", + " * Convert the source of the Debian Policy Manual to reStructuredText,", + " built using the Sphinx toolchain.", + " Many thanks to Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> for the conversion", + " scripts, and pushing the project forward.", + " Thanks to David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> for help proofreading the", + " output.", + " - Drop PostScript output." + ], + "closes" : [ + 587279, + 630174, + 648271, + 732445, + 844431 + ], + "epoch" : 1503350262, + "timestamp" : "2017-08-21T21:17:42Z", + "version" : "4.1.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367", + " * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Closes: #640263", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Policy: Disambiguate \"original authors\" in 12.5", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>", + " Closes: #678607", + " * Policy: Document Testsuite: field", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Closes: #758124", + " * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers", + " Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Closes: #822430", + " * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems", + " Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #835520", + " * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry", + " Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>", + " Seconded: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>", + " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>", + " Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>", + " Closes: #839172", + " * Convert Process.md to an appendix to Policy itself.", + " - Update link in \"Authors and Maintainers\" to point to this new", + " appendix (Closes: #866192).", + " * Incorporate Margarita Manterola's maintscript flowcharts as a new", + " appendix (Closes: #485776).", + " Many thanks to David Bremner for help importing the images to docbook.", + " - Add a footnote to 6.6 linking to the new appendix.", + " * Update first paragraph of Appendix A to note that the final three", + " appendices (the policy changes process and the upgrading checklist)", + " were not taken from the Packaging Manual.", + " * Add a footnote linking to the REJECT-FAQ (Closes: #849853).", + " * Note that the debian/rules clean target is useless for removing files", + " not compatible with the DFSG (Closes: #849851).", + " * Add 'javascript', 'rust' archive sections (Closes: #867308).", + " * Drop remark that systems with only required packages installed are", + " \"probably unusable\", and add a paragraph break. (Closes: #589671)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 196367, + 485776, + 589671, + 640263, + 660249, + 678607, + 758124, + 758234, + 759260, + 822430, + 835520, + 839172, + 849851, + 849853, + 866192, + 867308 + ], + "epoch" : 1501984067, + "timestamp" : "2017-08-06T01:47:47Z", + "version" : "4.0.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.0.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Fix URLs to Policy documents. Policy previously used the full URL as", + " the link but a partial URL as anchor text, and then sometimes added", + " the full URL in parentheses. The result was very ugly in the text", + " version. Replace that style with just the full URL as anchor text for", + " a link to that URL, which is not ideal for HTML output but produces", + " reasonable results for both HTML and text.", + " * Extensive reformatting of the maintainer script section.", + " - Use <cmdsynopsis> in the summary of how maintainer scripts are", + " called, with a single <term>. This avoids gluing all the command", + " summaries together with commas. The output in text is radically", + " better; HTML has some font issues, but isn't awful.", + " - Avoid trailing newlines in <screen> examples, which produce extra", + " whitespace in text and HTML output.", + " - Use different numeration methods at different levels of the nested", + " ordered lists and ensure there is some introductory text for each", + " list element to avoid awkward formatting.", + " * Convert many of the <screen> tags in Policy to </programlisting> since", + " the semantics are slightly more correct.", + " * Remove the newline before </screen> or </programlisting> end tags,", + " since it produces an extraneous and distracting blank line in both", + " text and HTML output.", + " * Change the mapping of Perl module names to Debian package names in", + " the Perl Policy from a verbatim block to a table.", + " * Change the list of cron directories from a verbatim block to a list." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 1498448067, + "timestamp" : "2017-06-26T03:34:27Z", + "version" : "4.0.0.4" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.0.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Fix typo 'the' -> 'they' in upgrading checklist (Closes: #865685).", + " Thanks Sven Joachim for the report.", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Move the autopkgtest, copyright-format, and debconf_specification", + " source files to the top-level directory and the debconf_spec/include", + " files to a debconf directory. Simplify the build system to eliminate", + " recursive make, reuse the same XML version file for all files, and use", + " the same method of embedding a version in Markdown output for all", + " files.", + " * Fix dependencies so that version.xml is generated before XML", + " validation is done on XML source files.", + " * Move README.shlibdeps and libc6-migration.txt to a new historical", + " subdirectory and add a README explaining that the files in this", + " directory are of historical interest only and are not included in the", + " debian-policy binary package." + ], + "closes" : [ + 865685.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1498338679, + "timestamp" : "2017-06-24T21:11:19Z", + "version" : "4.0.0.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Update list of Policy Editors in various places.", + " See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/06/msg00005.html", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Remove mention of the libc6 migration paper from the package long", + " description. This is no longer shipped in the debian-policy package." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 1497931108, + "timestamp" : "2017-06-20T03:58:28Z", + "version" : "4.0.0.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Upload to unstable.", + " * Clarify the conflict policy between /path and /usr/path by adding the", + " leading slash in front of the first path. Thanks, Ferenc Wágner.", + " * Change http URLs to https for every resource available over https.", + " * Replace broken CPAN URL in the Perl policy with the current URL, and", + " turn this into an in-line link rather than a footnote with the full", + " URL. This hides the URL in the text output, but it's not horribly", + " important for the text version and easy to find with a search.", + " * Fix formatting of the list of shlibs and symbol file locations. These", + " were mistakenly converted to itemized lists instead of variable lists", + " during the DocBook conversion, which produced inferior output.", + " * Use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 as the character set for the text", + " versions of policy documents.", + " * Further standardize author and copyright notices.", + " - Add the notice from the main document that the copyright notices are", + " incomplete to the other documents with copyright notices.", + " - Add the Debian Policy Mailing List as an author of the debconf", + " specification.", + " - Replace (incorrect) Software in the Public Interest copyrights with", + " copyright notices for the original authors.", + " - Standardize capitalization of Debian Policy Mailing List in notices.", + " - Update copyright notices in debian/copyright.", + " * Add a full copy of the BSD license without advertising clause to the", + " <legalinfo> section of the debconf specification, instead of just a", + " reference to it.", + " * Update the GPL license statements to the current recommended form,", + " which doesn't include a street address for the FSF. Use all-caps for", + " the warranty disclaimer just in case it matters. Link to the general", + " FSF license page to make it easier to find the GPLv2, which is", + " technically the license under which these documents are distributed,", + " even if the GPLv3 may be used if desired.", + " * Completely rewrite the build system to use debhelper.", + " - Remove all hand-rolled package build rules and let debhelper do the", + " package construction.", + " - Remove gzip compression from the main build and let debhelper handle", + " compression of text files. This allows debhelper to control the", + " gzip flags and do whatever is correct for reproducible builds.", + " - The top-level Makefile now has conventional all and install targets", + " that build all documents and would install them (not that anyone is", + " likely to use the install target other than the packaging).", + " - Get the document publication dates from debian/changelog instead of", + " the current date for more reproducible builds.", + " - Do xmllint validation of the copyright-format and debconf", + " specification documents as well.", + " - Remove a bunch of old leftovers from the clean and distclean targets", + " and make distclean identical to clean. Stop cleaning editor", + " autosave files and patch droppings (this can be destructive).", + " - Move all doc-base files into the debian packaging directory.", + " * Restructure the command list in the debconf specification document to", + " pass xmllint, which didn't like including the body of an itemizedlist", + " as an XML entity.", + " * Add missing release date to the 4.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry.", + " * Fix tools/policy-bug-report to not fail when bug lists are empty and", + " to ignore closed bugs.", + " * Don't delete virtual-package-names-list.txt during make distclean.", + " * Make distclean depend on clean to remove stamp-* files.", + " * Update Standards-Version of the debian-policy package itself." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 1497839268, + "timestamp" : "2017-06-19T02:27:48Z", + "version" : "4.0.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low", + "", + " [ Andreas Barth ]", + " * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #768292", + " * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>", + " Thanks: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Closes: #792853", + " * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>", + " Closes: #746514", + " * Spelling fixes, thanks to Martin A. Brown. Closes: #820197", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Policy: [10.9] Don't contact base-passwd maintainer for dynamic users", + " Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #841877", + " * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch", + " Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #823910", + " * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #759186", + " * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin", + " Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>", + " Closes: #759492", + " * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph", + " Wording: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #819660", + " * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags", + " Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #793493", + " * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly", + " Wording: Ondřej Nový <onovy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Closes: #833177", + " * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages", + " Wording: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Closes: #823348", + " * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>", + " Closes: #850646", + " * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev", + " Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>", + " Closes: #568374", + " * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended", + " Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ondřej Nový <novy@ondrej.org>", + " Closes: #181123", + " * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run", + " Wording: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>", + " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #852314", + " * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Closes: #698012", + " * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart", + " Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Closes: #835490", + " * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support", + " Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>", + " Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #798309", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure", + " Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Closes: #821859", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Brian May <bam@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #768117", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages", + " Wording: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #829367", + " * Convert all remaining DebianDoc-SGML source files in the package to", + " DocBook XML. Many thanks to Osamu Aoki and Guillem Jover for lots of", + " hard work on the conversion. This was a huge conversion, so there", + " will probably be some lingering formatting issues, incorrect markup,", + " and less-than-ideal output. Please report any problems as bugs.", + " (Closes: #175064, #700532, #809382)", + " * Additional fixes from Guillem Jover as part of the DocBook conversion:", + " - Stop distributing the source SGML files as part of the installed", + " package. There doesn't seem to be any point in doing this.", + " - Switch to xsltproc and dblatex instead of OpenJade.", + " - Stop using tidy on the generated files since it generates larger", + " files and the output from xsltproc is already compliant and fairly", + " clean.", + " - Remove unused Build-Depends.", + " - Use entities instead of literal <, >, and & characters.", + " - Use <var> instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables.", + " - Use <var> instead of <em> inside <tt>.", + " - Avoid slashes in section IDs.", + " - Convert a comment about maintenance policy in the Menu Policy", + " document to a regular paragraph in the document.", + " - Replace a comment reference to the policy maintenance process with", + " an actual link to Process.md.", + " - Remove obsolete SGML comments.", + " * Move the description of < and > relations to a footnote to make", + " abundantly clear that they're no longer valid relation operators in", + " dependencies. (Closes: #816515)", + " * Clarify informative mentions of debian/tmp in the appendices to", + " document the now-common use of debian/<pkg> instead as the temporary", + " staging area. Document that convention, instead of", + " debian/tmp-something, for multi-binary packages. Thanks, Niels", + " Thykier. (Closes: #816249)", + " * Remove lingering wording that implied that build-arch and build-indep", + " targets are optional. Thanks, Ferenc Wagner, Jakub Wilk, and Charles", + " Plessy. (Closes: #793999)", + " * Rather than giving the paths to the installed shlibs and symbols files", + " and then saying those paths shouldn't be used, just say to use", + " dpkg-query --control-show. Recommend --control-show instead of", + " --control-path, since the latter is deprecated. Patch from Salvatore", + " Bonaccorso. (Closes: #688220)", + " * Explicitly give Unicode code points in the definition of the syntax of", + " Debian control files and, where appropriate, show the character.", + " Patch from Ben Finney. (Closes: #821365)", + " * Remove obsolete footnote about a versioned dependency on a", + " liblockfile1 release from 1999. Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #794902)", + " * Fix the long name of the Common Public License in the copyright-format", + " policy. It is just Common Public License, with no leading \"IBM\".", + " Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli. (Closes: #781654)", + " * Fix the copyright-format examples to not have duplicate License", + " paragraphs. Thanks, Stefan <bd@bc-bd.org>. (Closes: #824922)", + " * Replace reference to dbus-launch in the autopkgtest documentation with", + " dbus-run-session. Patch from Simon McVittie. (Closes: #835876)", + " * Add an example of an architecture restriction in a dependency with", + " multiple architectures separated by spaces. (Closes: #734662)", + " * Replace use of markdown with MultiMarkdown for the autopkgtest", + " documentation and convert README and Process to MultiMarkdown, thus", + " dropping the last org-mode files and the build dependency on Emacs.", + " Patch from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #849483)", + " * Add some additional information to the upgrading-checklist entry for", + " the 3.9.8.0 release.", + " * Fix debian/changelog and upgrading-checklist dates for the 3.9.8.0", + " release to match the actual upload. (Closes: #822059)", + " * Fix duplicated \"the\" words in 4.4 and 8.6.3.2. Patch from Valentin", + " Samir. (Closes: #830989)", + " * Clean up the upgrading checklist a bit:", + " - Rewrite the introduction to read a bit more smoothly and mention", + " that the Standards-Version value omits the minor patch number.", + " - Remove the minor patch number from all the version headings except", + " for the anomalies that contain normative changes, and note those", + " explicitly.", + " - Remove some unhelpful section headings and trailing colons in very", + " old upgrading checklist entries.", + " - Standardize the release date format.", + " * Compress all files with gzip -n to avoid embedding timestamps,", + " enabling reproducible builds.", + " * Redo some of the Makefile and debian/rules dependencies to avoid", + " ambiguous pattern rules and to ensure that make at the top level", + " rebuilds output files if input files change.", + " * Switch to https URLs for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser.", + " * Use the same URL for both Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser, which now works", + " fine and has some advantages over the gitweb version for Vcs-Browser.", + " Thanks, Mattia Rizzolo.", + " * Run wrap-and-sort -ast.", + " * Tag as Multi-Arch: foreign (mostly to silence the hinter).", + "", + " [ Sean Whitton ]", + " * Remove references to DebianDoc-SGML from README.md.", + " * Fix typo & comma splice in Process.md." + ], + "closes" : [ + 175064, + 181123, + 568374, + 688220, + 698012, + 700532, + 734662, + 746514, + 759186, + 759492, + 768117, + 768292, + 781654, + 792853, + 793493, + 793999, + 794902, + 798309, + 809382, + 816249, + 816515, + 819660, + 820197, + 821365, + 821859, + 822059, + 823348, + 823910, + 824922, + 829367, + 830989, + 833177, + 835490, + 835876, + 841877, + 849483, + 850646, + 852314 + ], + "epoch" : 1495999627, + "timestamp" : "2017-05-28T19:27:07Z", + "version" : "4.0.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium", + "", + " * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported.", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (for the menu entries)", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #707851" + ], + "closes" : [ + 707851.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1459914598, + "timestamp" : "2016-04-06T03:49:58Z", + "version" : "3.9.8.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.", + " * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.", + " * debian/control, Makefile:", + " - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663", + " - migrate to openjade and opensp.", + " * debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478", + " * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.", + " Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>", + " Closes: #555979", + " * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.", + " Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Closes: #765499", + " * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in", + " the debian/control file of a source package.", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #666726", + " * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network", + " access.", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>", + " Closes: #770016", + " * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'", + " in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Closes: #106073", + "", + " [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]", + " * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,", + " as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests", + " Closes: #799779" + ], + "closes" : [ + 106073, + 555979, + 666726, + 765499, + 770016, + 797478, + 799779, + 812663 + ], + "epoch" : 1454364231, + "timestamp" : "2016-02-01T22:03:51Z", + "version" : "3.9.7.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>", + " for the help. Closes: #769219" + ], + "closes" : [ + 769219.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1416221755, + "timestamp" : "2014-11-17T10:55:55Z", + "version" : "3.9.6.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " [ Bill Allombert ]", + " * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from", + " the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.", + " * debian/control:", + " - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999", + " Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.", + " * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.", + " * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and", + " applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.", + " * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo \"by\" -> be. Closes: #753353.", + " Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.", + " * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)", + " Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Closes: #731810", + " * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.", + " Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>", + " Closes: #741304", + " * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2", + " Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Closes: #748480", + " * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier", + " Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>", + " Closes: #748479", + " * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch", + " Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>", + " Closes: #748380", + " * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*", + " dependency", + " Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>", + " Closes: #750017", + " * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #742756", + " * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Closes: #555980", + " * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>", + " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #593611", + " * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>", + " Closes: #491547", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list", + " Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>", + " Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Closes: #754876", + " * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi", + " Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>", + " Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>", + " Closes: #588497", + " [ Jonathan Nieder ]", + " * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>", + " or /usr/lib<qual> does.", + " Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #613143" + ], + "closes" : [ + 491547, + 555980, + 588497, + 593611, + 613143, + 731810, + 737730, + 740100, + 741304, + 742756, + 748380, + 748479, + 748480, + 750017, + 753353, + 753999, + 754876 + ], + "epoch" : 1410977000, + "timestamp" : "2014-09-17T18:03:20Z", + "version" : "3.9.6.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Policy: Document the Package-List field.", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #697433", + " * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #679326", + " * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #690293", + " * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #698030", + " * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #669915", + " * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.", + " Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Closes: #715804", + " * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>", + " Closes: #701081", + " * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.", + " Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>", + " Closes: #720507", + " * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Closes: #707183", + " * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.", + " Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Closes: #707077", + " * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.", + " Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #706778", + " * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #671355", + " * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.", + " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Closes: #668394", + " * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover", + " * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.", + " Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.", + " * Update dak reference from old katie name.", + " Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.", + " * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)", + " * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.", + " * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.", + " Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.", + " * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.", + " Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.", + " * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.", + " Closes: #705403", + " * Clarify what is meant by \"compressed\" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)", + " * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.", + " * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool \"config-model-edit\".", + " * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors." + ], + "closes" : [ + 668394, + 669915, + 671355, + 676784, + 679326, + 690293, + 691352, + 697433, + 698030, + 700536, + 700574, + 701081, + 703022, + 704657, + 705403, + 706778, + 707077, + 707183, + 715804, + 720507 + ], + "epoch" : 1382920848, + "timestamp" : "2013-10-28T00:40:48Z", + "version" : "3.9.5.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,", + " implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording", + " review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.", + " (Closes: #374029)", + " * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.", + " Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)", + " * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>", + " Closes: #661933", + " * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations", + " Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #663918", + " * Policy: Document the Built-Using field", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>", + " Closes: #641153", + " * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #654958", + " * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy", + " Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #676561", + " * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Closes: #571776", + " * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements", + " Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>", + " Closes: #591791", + " * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #661816" + ], + "closes" : [ + 374029, + 571776, + 591791, + 641153, + 654958, + 661816, + 661933, + 663918, + 670429, + 676561 + ], + "epoch" : 1348029336, + "timestamp" : "2012-09-19T04:35:36Z", + "version" : "3.9.4.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source", + " package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)", + " * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.", + " Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)", + " and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and", + " Ben Finney.", + " * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking", + " whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending", + " dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)", + " * Remove the ambiguous word \"installed\" when requiring that the location", + " of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)", + " * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not", + " contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)", + " * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided", + " (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist", + " or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some", + " of the wording. (Closes: #601839)", + " * Clearly state that \"yes\" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed", + " and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)", + " * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to", + " reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam", + " Morris. (Closes: #658009)", + " * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent", + " copyright notice.", + " * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf", + " specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make", + " non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's", + " good to know which version one is looking at.", + " * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.", + " * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html", + " directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on", + " www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to", + " work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)", + " * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz", + " without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just", + " the current version.", + " * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading", + " checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.", + " * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.", + " * Expand package long description to include all documents.", + " * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,", + " Charles Plessy.", + " * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,", + " references to old files no longer included, use a more standard", + " layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better", + " maintainability.", + " * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process", + " add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself", + " and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement", + " for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents." + ], + "closes" : [ + 490604, + 601839, + 622263, + 638060, + 647645, + 658009, + 661412 + ], + "epoch" : 1330902132, + "timestamp" : "2012-03-04T23:02:12Z", + "version" : "3.9.3.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " [ Russ Allbery ]", + " * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the", + " DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion", + " in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more", + " examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve", + " Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.", + " (Closes: #658209, #648387)", + " * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so", + " that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of", + " the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)", + " * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package", + " Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #626779", + " * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>", + " Closes: #593533", + " * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions", + " Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>", + " Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>", + " Closes: #609162", + " * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #23712", + " * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>", + " Closes: #620870, #532120", + " * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty", + " Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>", + " Closes: #498300", + " * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy", + " Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>", + " Closes: #89038", + " * Consistently use \"Debian source control file\" for *.dsc files and", + " \"Source package control file\" for debian/control files. Patch from", + " Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)", + " * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must", + " contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.", + " (Closes: #627490)", + " * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if", + " the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)", + " * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level", + " directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,", + " Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)", + " * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl", + " source package and the manual page extensions are different for", + " separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)", + " * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,", + " bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line", + " with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)", + " * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding", + " education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles", + " Plessy. (Closes: #651020)", + " * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or", + " Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly", + " addresses #587279.", + " * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,", + " Slavko.", + " * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.", + " * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.", + " * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,", + " Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)", + " * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,", + " when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link", + " to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.", + " * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.", + " * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.", + " * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.", + "", + " [ Bill Allombert ]", + " * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification", + " strings (11.1).", + " Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.", + " * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)", + " Proposed by: Justin B Rye", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Closes: #621479", + " * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.", + " Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.", + " Closes: #623050", + " * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.", + " Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540", + " * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #641071", + " * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright", + " files (12.5)", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Closes: #617516", + " * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix", + " Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Closes: #640735", + " * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.", + " Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>", + " Closes: #649674", + " * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:", + " Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>", + " Closes: #633797", + " * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #640737", + " * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger", + " Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>", + " Closes: #619275", + " * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to", + " fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.", + " Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Closes: #644230", + " * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.", + " Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>", + " Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + " Closes: #578421", + " * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #637614" + ], + "closes" : [ + 23712, + 89038, + 498300, + 532120, + 578421, + 593533, + 609162, + 617315, + 617516, + 619275, + 620870, + 621479, + 623050, + 626338, + 626408, + 626779, + 626796, + 627490, + 628540, + 633797, + 637614, + 640735, + 640737, + 641071, + 643690, + 644230, + 646119, + 646166, + 648387, + 649674, + 651020, + 658209 + ], + "epoch" : 1329968436, + "timestamp" : "2012-02-23T03:40:36Z", + "version" : "3.9.3.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #459868, #581011", + " * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>", + " Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>", + " Closes: #594658", + " * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Closes: #588014", + " * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming", + " Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>", + " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #619186", + " * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Closes: #504880", + " * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields", + " Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>", + " Closes: #501930, #593909", + " * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package", + " Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>", + " Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>", + " Closes: #488214", + " * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host", + " architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than", + " machine. (Closes: #591857)", + " * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package", + " description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)", + " * Use the word \"implemented\" to describe required targets in", + " debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List", + " the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the", + " paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules", + " as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)", + " * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories", + " to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the", + " multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.", + " (Closes: #597074)", + " * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly", + " the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ", + " Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)", + " * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply", + " Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch", + " from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)", + " * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.", + " * Update the list of Policy maintainers.", + " * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.", + " * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use", + " -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary", + " packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older", + " than the version in oldstable.", + " * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated", + " from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean", + " files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the", + " list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)", + " * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.", + " Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)", + " * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section", + " 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan", + " Nieder. (Closes: #599944)", + " * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.", + " This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the", + " 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars", + " Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy", + " package. (Closes: #609160)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 459868, + 488214, + 501930, + 504880, + 536790, + 581011, + 588014, + 590696, + 591857, + 593909, + 594274, + 594542, + 594656, + 594658, + 597074, + 599944, + 606869, + 609160, + 619186 + ], + "epoch" : 1302155335, + "timestamp" : "2011-04-07T05:48:55Z", + "version" : "3.9.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 104373, + 175202, + 184064, + 186102, + 218897, + 232448, + 400322, + 402721, + 436105, + 445203, + 475101, + 477240, + 509932, + 509933, + 555977, + 561413, + 588750, + 589362, + 589605, + 589609 + ], + "epoch" : 1280111901, + "timestamp" : "2010-07-26T02:38:21Z", + "version" : "3.9.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 224509, + 284340, + 328951, + 347581, + 442134, + 470633, + 478295, + 530687, + 547272, + 555009, + 555978, + 558430, + 560411, + 560839, + 562506, + 563425, + 566220, + 567845, + 569174, + 572253, + 575639, + 576594, + 577666, + 578854, + 579457, + 579461, + 582495, + 584521, + 584796, + 586163 + ], + "epoch" : 1277700052, + "timestamp" : "2010-06-28T04:40:52Z", + "version" : "3.9.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 391836, + 518199, + 542865, + 544353, + 545548, + 550192, + 552757, + 556972 + ], + "epoch" : 1264616563, + "timestamp" : "2010-01-27T18:22:43Z", + "version" : "3.8.4.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 493007, + 514919, + 519941, + 522217, + 525190, + 527871, + 529771, + 530967, + 533577, + 533852, + 534408, + 537707, + 538665, + 539389, + 541537 + ], + "epoch" : 1250381606, + "timestamp" : "2009-08-16T00:13:26Z", + "version" : "3.8.3.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 206684, + 519706, + 519835, + 522218, + 522219, + 522364, + 525151, + 533257 + ], + "epoch" : 1245181373, + "timestamp" : "2009-06-16T19:42:53Z", + "version" : "3.8.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 143941, + 163666, + 241333, + 416450, + 426877, + 446712, + 470994, + 473019, + 473439, + 479080, + 483418, + 487701, + 488039, + 489460, + 491985, + 492624, + 503685, + 511804, + 513955, + 514326 + ], + "epoch" : 1236829852, + "timestamp" : "2009-03-12T03:50:52Z", + "version" : "3.8.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 484706.0 + ], + "epoch" : 1212696781, + "timestamp" : "2008-06-05T20:13:01Z", + "version" : "3.8.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 65577, + 186700, + 209008, + 250202, + 291460, + 367984, + 379150, + 392362, + 403391, + 422552, + 430649, + 431813, + 440420, + 442070, + 452105, + 455602, + 458910, + 473761, + 475731, + 480551, + 481640, + 481954 + ], + "epoch" : 1212620007, + "timestamp" : "2008-06-04T22:53:27Z", + "version" : "3.8.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 294962, + 361418, + 363133, + 382612, + 392594, + 402975, + 412634, + 413575, + 418444, + 420701, + 424212, + 431813, + 435207, + 440931, + 448035 + ], + "epoch" : 1196663635, + "timestamp" : "2007-12-03T06:33:55Z", + "version" : "3.7.3.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 367531, + 367697, + 370471, + 373212, + 375508, + 375728, + 376104, + 376438, + 377215, + 378386, + 379630, + 379974, + 380692, + 382612, + 385935, + 386178, + 387027, + 388302 + ], + "epoch" : 1159828283, + "timestamp" : "2006-10-02T22:31:23Z", + "version" : "3.7.2.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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 Jordà", + " 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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 366032, + 366466, + 366889, + 369011, + 369413, + 369912, + 372147, + 372148, + 372497, + 372522, + 372731 + ], + "epoch" : 1150780699, + "timestamp" : "2006-06-20T05:18:19Z", + "version" : "3.7.2.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 328951, + 365907 + ], + "epoch" : 1146697639, + "timestamp" : "2006-05-03T23:07:19Z", + "version" : "3.7.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 136318, + 329762, + 360518, + 364982, + 364983, + 364985, + 365058, + 365323, + 365356, + 365510 + ], + "epoch" : 1146673062, + "timestamp" : "2006-05-03T16:17:42Z", + "version" : "3.7.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 32263, + 117916, + 148194, + 190753, + 199849, + 212434, + 230217, + 341232, + 342611, + 344158, + 346598, + 349010, + 349775, + 355263, + 357613, + 359817, + 361137, + 362247, + 362975 + ], + "epoch" : 1146027376, + "timestamp" : "2006-04-26T04:56:16Z", + "version" : "3.7.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 224770, + 257726, + 315470, + 318147, + 318214, + 321790, + 321792, + 326633, + 334819, + 334913, + 337539, + 338493, + 340189, + 341992, + 343933, + 344310 + ], + "epoch" : 1135522072, + "timestamp" : "2005-12-25T14:47:52Z", + "version" : "3.6.2.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 294633, + 310113, + 313626, + 314569 + ], + "epoch" : 1119073694, + "timestamp" : "2005-06-18T05:48:14Z", + "version" : "3.6.2.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)." + ], + "closes" : [ + 89867, + 146023, + 203145, + 216104, + 222553, + 239359, + 260092, + 270020, + 273122, + 276953, + 284967, + 286549, + 286553, + 290270, + 291026, + 295939, + 308886, + 309162 + ], + "epoch" : 1118971637, + "timestamp" : "2005-06-17T01:27:17Z", + "version" : "3.6.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 50565, + 51832, + 68827, + 70742, + 75508, + 79210, + 185943, + 202054, + 209855, + 212153, + 215524, + 215558, + 218530, + 227762, + 232364, + 235484, + 236614, + 237049, + 238958, + 241683, + 244969, + 247143, + 247761, + 248618, + 248786, + 248788, + 252086, + 252392, + 253324 + ], + "epoch" : 1088197658, + "timestamp" : "2004-06-25T21:07:38Z", + "version" : "3.6.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 176506, + 187250, + 187297, + 188030, + 193748, + 200440, + 203728 + ], + "epoch" : 1061296090, + "timestamp" : "2003-08-19T12:28:10Z", + "version" : "3.6.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 169744, + 174982, + 178809, + 183195, + 187615, + 189306, + 189516, + 191369, + 191411, + 193903, + 194972, + 194974 + ], + "epoch" : 1057766495, + "timestamp" : "2003-07-09T16:01:35Z", + "version" : "3.6.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 165063, + 167004, + 182792, + 184368, + 184507, + 184518, + 185985, + 187418, + 187420, + 187422, + 187567, + 189274, + 189654 + ], + "epoch" : 1052586830, + "timestamp" : "2003-05-10T17:13:50Z", + "version" : "3.5.10.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 60979, + 69864, + 87510, + 93975, + 103459, + 109166, + 170019, + 172022, + 174048, + 174927, + 177205, + 177206, + 177207, + 177208, + 177209, + 178455, + 181923, + 183544 + ], + "epoch" : 1047062116, + "timestamp" : "2003-03-07T18:35:16Z", + "version" : "3.5.9.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 39830, + 53582, + 65764, + 72980, + 120585, + 160248, + 160776, + 162812, + 164035, + 167425 + ], + "epoch" : 1037342214, + "timestamp" : "2002-11-15T06:36:54Z", + "version" : "3.5.8.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 111137, + 122928, + 129375, + 133030, + 149709, + 160839, + 160908, + 160914, + 164755 + ], + "epoch" : 1035655969, + "timestamp" : "2002-10-26T18:12:49Z", + "version" : "3.5.7.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 47298, + 69311, + 81852, + 97755, + 100346, + 100472, + 106280, + 106826, + 109672, + 111025, + 112828, + 113525, + 114949, + 116134, + 118608, + 131441, + 134977, + 137521, + 138681, + 139067, + 139820, + 139832, + 139969, + 140697, + 141307, + 141903, + 143770, + 144297, + 144411, + 145067, + 146703, + 146756, + 147554, + 150456, + 151328, + 152965, + 153704, + 154142, + 154660, + 155680, + 156546, + 157131 + ], + "epoch" : 1030778282, + "timestamp" : "2002-08-31T07:18:02Z", + "version" : "3.5.7.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 51411, + 51412, + 110446, + 110705, + 110711, + 110713, + 121977, + 122931, + 122996, + 123570, + 126131, + 131781, + 132621, + 137172, + 137521 + ], + "epoch" : 1016129813, + "timestamp" : "2002-03-14T18:16:53Z", + "version" : "3.5.6.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 53849, + 60461, + 72335, + 98291, + 100631, + 102199, + 102204, + 105535, + 105538, + 105625 + ], + "epoch" : 996029002, + "timestamp" : "2001-07-25T02:43:22Z", + "version" : "3.5.6.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 66023, + 89473, + 89674, + 91249, + 91252, + 91257, + 91259, + 91260, + 91261, + 92744, + 94995, + 95906, + 97072, + 98712 + ], + "epoch" : 991388272, + "timestamp" : "2001-06-01T09:37:52Z", + "version" : "3.5.5.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 42052, + 83977, + 85503, + 86436, + 87233 + ], + "epoch" : 988482621, + "timestamp" : "2001-04-28T18:30:21Z", + "version" : "3.5.4.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 84236, + 86507, + 87007, + 87711, + 87828, + 88651, + 88788, + 91276, + 93047, + 93620, + 93705 + ], + "epoch" : 987359779, + "timestamp" : "2001-04-15T18:36:19Z", + "version" : "3.5.3.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069" + ], + "closes" : [ + 83069.0 + ], + "epoch" : 982505509, + "timestamp" : "2001-02-18T14:11:49Z", + "version" : "3.5.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 83487, + 84079, + 84631, + 84636, + 84641, + 85497, + 85501, + 85504, + 85505, + 85506, + 85508, + 85510, + 85511, + 85514, + 85982, + 85986, + 85993, + 86001 + ], + "epoch" : 982239180, + "timestamp" : "2001-02-15T12:13:00Z", + "version" : "3.5.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 75925, + 79891, + 80342, + 80347, + 80506, + 82743, + 82966, + 83065, + 83438, + 83924, + 83960 + ], + "epoch" : 980740756, + "timestamp" : "2001-01-29T03:59:16Z", + "version" : "3.5.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 51879, + 53496, + 53700, + 55048, + 55730, + 57154, + 59403, + 65765, + 66912, + 76028 + ], + "epoch" : 979803838, + "timestamp" : "2001-01-18T07:43:58Z", + "version" : "3.2.1.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 62943, + 69229, + 70442, + 70634, + 70643, + 72949, + 77404, + 77645, + 77650, + 78809, + 78822, + 82458 + ], + "epoch" : 979710811, + "timestamp" : "2001-01-17T05:53:31Z", + "version" : "3.2.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 46522, + 48247, + 50832, + 53759, + 58759, + 61308, + 62668, + 62946, + 62947, + 62948, + 64004, + 64006, + 64437, + 64516, + 69031, + 69424, + 69426, + 69487, + 69670 + ], + "epoch" : 967100790, + "timestamp" : "2000-08-24T07:06:30Z", + "version" : "3.2.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 15709, + 17369, + 22935, + 29522, + 39398, + 40934, + 43787, + 51091, + 52225, + 53405, + 53755, + 53756, + 53757, + 53758, + 53760, + 53761, + 53762, + 53763, + 54777, + 56407, + 56692, + 58771 + ], + "epoch" : 964996982, + "timestamp" : "2000-07-30T22:43:02Z", + "version" : "3.2.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 951798425, + "timestamp" : "2000-02-29T04:27:05Z", + "version" : "3.1.1.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 51091, + 52225 + ], + "epoch" : 945722397, + "timestamp" : "1999-12-20T20:39:57Z", + "version" : "3.1.1.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 50502, + 50857 + ], + "epoch" : 943298611, + "timestamp" : "1999-11-22T19:23:31Z", + "version" : "3.1.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends", + " description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)" + ], + "closes" : [ + 49901.0 + ], + "epoch" : 942764628, + "timestamp" : "1999-11-16T15:03:48Z", + "version" : "3.1.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 8221, + 17621, + 19179, + 24695, + 32448, + 32449, + 33076, + 40766, + 40767, + 41095, + 41121, + 41232, + 41547, + 41829, + 42358, + 42447, + 42849, + 43651, + 44620, + 44643, + 44922, + 45307, + 45318, + 45561, + 46516, + 48570 + ], + "epoch" : 941759437, + "timestamp" : "1999-11-04T23:50:37Z", + "version" : "3.1.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 40180.0 + ], + "epoch" : 934784469, + "timestamp" : "1999-08-16T06:21:09Z", + "version" : "3.0.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 25533, + 26159, + 26915, + 30036, + 38612, + 39408, + 40864 + ], + "epoch" : 932063711, + "timestamp" : "1999-07-15T18:35:11Z", + "version" : "3.0.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 21969, + 28747, + 37257, + 37338, + 37342, + 37345, + 37389, + 37713, + 38212 + ], + "epoch" : 930800955, + "timestamp" : "1999-07-01T03:49:15Z", + "version" : "3.0.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [ + 21875, + 30148, + 30302, + 31033, + 34233, + 34988, + 35095, + 36286 + ], + "epoch" : 925229429, + "timestamp" : "1999-04-27T16:10:29Z", + "version" : "2.5.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [ + 7890, + 21185, + 25385, + 25911, + 26461 + ], + "epoch" : 909695812, + "timestamp" : "1998-10-29T21:16:52Z", + "version" : "2.5.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 904959695, + "timestamp" : "1998-09-05T01:41:35Z", + "version" : "2.4.1.4" + }, + { + "author" : "Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 902825657, + "timestamp" : "1998-08-11T08:54:17Z", + "version" : "2.4.1.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 897981322, + "timestamp" : "1998-06-16T07:15:22Z", + "version" : "2.4.1.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Orphaned package" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 895175690, + "timestamp" : "1998-05-14T19:54:50Z", + "version" : "2.4.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 892541289, + "timestamp" : "1998-04-14T08:08:09Z", + "version" : "2.4.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 886193905, + "timestamp" : "1998-01-30T20:58:25Z", + "version" : "2.4.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 877467832, + "timestamp" : "1997-10-21T21:03:52Z", + "version" : "2.3.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 873154471, + "timestamp" : "1997-09-01T22:54:31Z", + "version" : "2.3.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 868793151, + "timestamp" : "1997-07-13T11:25:51Z", + "version" : "2.2.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low", + "", + " * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 863621595, + "timestamp" : "1997-05-14T14:53:15Z", + "version" : "2.1.3.3" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 862855539, + "timestamp" : "1997-05-05T18:05:39Z", + "version" : "2.1.3.2" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 862329734, + "timestamp" : "1997-04-29T16:02:14Z", + "version" : "2.1.3.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 858445736, + "timestamp" : "1997-03-15T17:08:56Z", + "version" : "2.1.3.0" + }, + { + "author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 849677284, + "timestamp" : "1996-12-04T05:28:04Z", + "version" : "2.1.2.2" + }, + { + "author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 849104236, + "timestamp" : "1996-11-27T14:17:16Z", + "version" : "2.1.2.1" + }, + { + "author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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)" + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 848727699, + "timestamp" : "1996-11-23T05:41:39Z", + "version" : "2.1.2.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 842486441, + "timestamp" : "1996-09-12T00:00:41Z", + "version" : "2.1.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 841596438, + "timestamp" : "1996-09-01T16:47:18Z", + "version" : "2.1.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 841518442, + "timestamp" : "1996-08-31T19:07:22Z", + "version" : "2.0.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 841066054, + "timestamp" : "1996-08-26T13:27:34Z", + "version" : "2.0.0.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;", + "", + " * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 840908694, + "timestamp" : "1996-08-24T17:44:54Z", + "version" : "0.2.1.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "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." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 840800889, + "timestamp" : "1996-08-23T11:48:09Z", + "version" : "0.2.1.0" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;", + "", + " * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 840769536, + "timestamp" : "1996-08-23T03:05:36Z", + "version" : "0.2.0.1" + }, + { + "author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>", + "changes" : [ + "", + "debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;", + "", + " * Draft releases." + ], + "closes" : [], + "epoch" : 840636473, + "timestamp" : "1996-08-21T14:07:53Z", + "version" : "0.2.0.0" + } + ] +} |