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authorDaniel 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
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+{
+ "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 &quot;invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?&quot; in",
+ " prerm scripts\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).",
+ " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms\",",
+ " thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).",
+ " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/with With/with /\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
+ " (Closes: #379974).",
+ " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: \"$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/&amp;a/; s/stats/status/;",
+ " s/and/an/; s/'/&quot;/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/&amp; 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: &quot;'..' character&quot;",
+ " should be &quot;'.' character&quot;\", 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 &quot;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:",
+ " &quot;Guideliens&quot;\", 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 &quot;Error",
+ " unwind:&quot; for &quot;new-postrm abort-upgrade&quot;\", 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: &quot;ends .sh&quot;,",
+ " &quot;rather that&quot;\", 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 &quot;command -v&quot; 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,
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+ 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"
+ ],
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ 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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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" : [
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+ ],
+ "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"
+ }
+ ]
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