{ "preamble" : { "cargo" : "releases", "title" : "Debian Policy Releases" }, "releases" : [ { "author" : "Sean Whitton ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Update alternatives system priorities for window managers", " Wording: Ansgar ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Closes: #975631", " * Policy: Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Closes: #992136", "", " [ Russ Allbery ]", " * Policy: Add new-version argument to several maintainer script calls", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #823256", " * Policy: Essential packages must work only if previously configured", " Wording: Helmut Grohne ", " Seconded: Santiago Vila ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " 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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: Allow non-64-bit packages to install to /usr/lib64", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #992601", " * Policy: Define 'upstream' & document several version conventions", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sam Hartman ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Christoph Berg ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Closes: #983657", " * Policy: Support for subpaths in Vcs-Git", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Sam Hartman ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: Relax requirements on copying copyright notices into d/copyright", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Scott Kitterman ", " Seconded: Joerg Jaspert ", " Closes: #955005", " * Policy: Forbid vendor-specific series files", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Seconded: Graham Inggs ", " Closes: #959909", " * Policy: Clarification about colons in version numbers", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Ansgar ", " Closes: #941198", " * Policy: New package usernames should begin with an underscore", " Wording: Philipp Kern ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #949390", " * Policy: Revise init script policy in light of GR result", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sam Hartman ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.4.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Drop implementation details of sysvinit runlevels", " Wording: Ansgar ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.4.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: Only one Vcs- field is permitted", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #931975", " * Policy: Document /run/reboot-required mechanism", " Wording: Karl O. Pinc ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Closes: #919507", " * Policy: doc-base now optional, not recommended", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Closes: #910783", " * Copyright format: state syntactical restrictions on Files: field", " Wording: Nicolas Boulenguez ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #688481" ], "closes" : [ 688481, 910783, 919507, 931975 ], "epoch" : 1569780709, "timestamp" : "2019-09-29T18:11:49Z", "version" : "4.4.1.0" }, { "author" : "Sean Whitton ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Recommend use of dh", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Sam Hartman ", " Closes: #930666", " * Policy: Permit -b in Vcs-Hg as well as Vcs-Git", " Wording: Chris Lamb ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Closes: #897217, #920355", " * Policy: Document versioned Provides:", " Wording: Dominic Hargreaves ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Closes: #761219", " * virtual-package-names-list: Add logind, default-logind", " Wording: Adam Borowski ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: Update recommendations for stripping binaries and shlibs", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Closes: #188731", " * Policy: Slightly relax when copyright information need be included verbatim", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #912581", " * Policy: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree", " Wording: Johannes Schauer ", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Closes: #845715", " * Policy: Packages should not contain a non-default series file", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Closes: #850156", " * virtual-package-names-list: Add dbus-session-bus, default-dbus-session-bus", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy & Perl Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'must' -> 'should'", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: Standards-Version field is mandatory", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #886258", " * Policy: Builds should be verbose & 'terse' DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS flag", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " Seconded: Ian Jackson ", " Closes: #628515", " * Policy: Required targets may attempt some network access", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " Seconded: Osamu Aoki ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Closes: #813471", " * Policy: Installation of upstream release notes and changelogs", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.1.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: Update section 4.1, \"Standards conformance\"", " Wording: Ian Jackson ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Closes: #901160", " * Policy: Require d-devel consultation for each epoch bump", " Wording: Ian Jackson ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Paul Gevers ", " Closes: #891216", " * Policy: Document Rules-Requires-Root", " Wording: Niels Thykier ", " Wording: Guillem Jover ", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Paul Gevers ", " Closes: #880920", " * Policy: Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf ", " Closes: #864615", " * Policy: Update version of FHS from 2.3 to 3.0", " Wording: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.1.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Drop get-orig-source rules target", " Wording: Helmut Grohne ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Closes: #515856", " * Policy: Update required permissions for /usr/local", " Wording: Santiago Vila ", " Seconded: Don Armstrong ", " Seconded: Ian Jackson ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #299007", " * Policy: Document debian/missing-sources", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf ", " Closes: #742364", " * Policy: Uniqueness of version numbers", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses", " Wording: Jeremy Bicha ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Closes: #859649, #882628", " * Policy: Clarify when Built-Using should be used", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Closes: #688251", " * Policy: Use update-rc.d's defaults-disabled instead of DISABLED=yes", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Closes: #810381", " * Policy: Clarify that programs may search PATH for editor and pager", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Closes: #880992", " * Policy: Allow libc to install files in /lib64", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'should' -> 'must'", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves ", " Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso ", " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Dominique Dumont ", " Closes: #683495", " * Policy: Update where private shared object files may be installed", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Closes: #636383", " * Policy: Convention for naming packages with potentially offensive content", " Wording: Ian Jackson ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Gunnar Wolf ", " Seconded: Iain R. Learmonth ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo ", " Closes: #683222", " * Policy: /nonexistent is the canonical non-existent home directory", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " Closes: #679751", " * Policy: Correct the description of Testsuite: field", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Packages should build reproducibly", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Ondrej Novy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Ximin Luo ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Closes: #844431", " * Policy: Restrictions on the use of /lib64/ and /usr/lib64/", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Closes: #630174", " * Policy: Clarify how `x-terminal-emulator -e` must behave", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Daniel Kahn Gillmor ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud ", " Closes: #732445", " * Policy: Clearly allow non-default alternative non-free dependencies", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " 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 for the conversion", " scripts, and pushing the project forward.", " Thanks to David Bremner 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " [ Russ Allbery ]", " * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson ", " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367", " * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Closes: #640263", "", " [ Sean Whitton ]", " * Policy: Disambiguate \"original authors\" in 12.5", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard ", " Closes: #678607", " * Policy: Document Testsuite: field", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Antonio Terceiro ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " Closes: #758124", " * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers", " Wording: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " Closes: #822430", " * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems", " Wording: Andreas Henriksson ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Seconded: Martin Pitt ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Seconded: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #835520", " * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry", " Wording: Sean Whitton ", " Seconded: Philip Hands ", " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud ", " Seconded: David Bremner ", " 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 ", "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 in the summary of how maintainer scripts are", " called, with a single . 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 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 tags in Policy to since", " the semantics are slightly more correct.", " * Remove the newline before or 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low", "", " [ Andreas Barth ]", " * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Closes: #768292", " * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud ", " Seconded: Sam Hartman ", " Thanks: Jakub Wilk ", " Closes: #792853", " * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: Andreas Barth ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Closes: #841877", " * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch", " Wording: Johannes Schauer ", " Seconded: Stuart Prescott ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #823910", " * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Johannes Schauer ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Closes: #759186", " * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin", " Wording: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Seconded: Felipe Sateler ", " Closes: #759492", " * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph", " Wording: Tanguy Ortolo ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Closes: #819660", " * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags", " Wording: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Closes: #793493", " * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly", " Wording: Ondřej Nový ", " Seconded: Michael Stapelberg ", " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson ", " Closes: #833177", " * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages", " Wording: Josh Triplett ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Closes: #823348", " * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud ", " Closes: #850646", " * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev", " Wording: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Closes: #568374", " * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended", " Wording: Andreas Henriksson ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Seconded: Felipe Sateler ", " Seconded: Ondřej Nový ", " Closes: #181123", " * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run", " Wording: Marc Haber ", " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #852314", " * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andreas Henriksson ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Closes: #698012", " * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart", " Wording: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Seconded: Michael Biebl ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Closes: #835490", " * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support", " Wording: Dominic Hargreaves ", " Seconded: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #798309", " * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure", " Wording: Ben Finney ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Niels Thykier ", " Closes: #821859", " * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Brian May ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #768117", " * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages", " Wording: Otto Kekäläinen ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " 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 instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables.", " - Use instead of inside .", " - 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/ 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 . (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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium", "", " * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported.", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois (for the menu entries)", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #707851" ], "closes" : [ 707851.0 ], "epoch" : 1459914598, "timestamp" : "2016-04-06T03:49:58Z", "version" : "3.9.8.0" }, { "author" : "Bill Allombert ", "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 ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ", " Closes: #555979", " * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.", " Wording: Matthew Vernon ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Closes: #666726", " * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network", " access.", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin ", " Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner ", " for the help. Closes: #769219" ], "closes" : [ 769219.0 ], "epoch" : 1416221755, "timestamp" : "2014-11-17T10:55:55Z", "version" : "3.9.6.1" }, { "author" : "Bill Allombert ", "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 ", " Seconded: Julian Gilbey ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Closes: #731810", " * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.", " Wording: Joey Hess ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Michael Biebl ", " Closes: #741304", " * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2", " Wording: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #748480", " * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier", " Wording: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Damyan Ivanov ", " Closes: #748479", " * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch", " Wording: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Damyan Ivanov ", " Closes: #748380", " * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*", " dependency", " Wording: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Seconded: Axel Beckert ", " Closes: #750017", " * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #742756", " * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Closes: #555980", " * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Closes: #593611", " * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Arno Töll ", " Seconded: Matthias Urlichs ", " Closes: #491547", " * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list", " Wording: Emmanuel Bourg ", " Seconded: Tony Mancill ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #754876", " * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi", " Wording: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard ", " Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski ", " Closes: #588497", " [ Jonathan Nieder ]", " * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib exist when /lib", " or /usr/lib does.", " Wording: Tollef Fog Heen ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Policy: Document the Package-List field.", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #697433", " * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #679326", " * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Closes: #690293", " * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #698030", " * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #669915", " * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.", " Wording: Thomas Goirand ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Closes: #715804", " * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Julian Gilbey ", " Closes: #701081", " * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.", " Wording: Ian Jackson ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Joey Hess ", " Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs ", " Closes: #720507", " * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Closes: #707183", " * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.", " Wording: Paul Wise ", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Closes: #707077", " * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.", " Wording: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #706778", " * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #671355", " * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.", " Seconded: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " 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 .", " * 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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso ", " Seconded: Simon McVittie ", " Closes: #661933", " * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations", " Wording: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #663918", " * Policy: Document the Built-Using field", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt ", " Closes: #641153", " * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #654958", " * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy", " Wording: Roger Leigh ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #676561", " * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Closes: #571776", " * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements", " Wording: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Adam D. Barratt ", " Closes: #591791", " * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #626779", " * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Closes: #593533", " * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions", " Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen ", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves ", " Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ", " Closes: #609162", " * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #23712", " * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Roger Leigh ", " Closes: #620870, #532120", " * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty", " Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Colin Watson ", " Closes: #498300", " * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy", " Wording: Ben Finney ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Closes: #641071", " * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright", " files (12.5)", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Closes: #617516", " * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix", " Wording: Lars Wirzenius ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Closes: #640735", " * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.", " Proposed by: Charles Plessy ", " Wording: Jonathan Nieder ", " Closes: #649674", " * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:", " Wording: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Craig Small ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard ", " Closes: #633797", " * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: David Prévot ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Closes: #640737", " * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger", " Wording: Dominic Hargreaves ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Closes: #619275", " * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to", " fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.", " Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #644230", " * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.", " Proposed by: Niels Thykier ", " Seconded: tony mancill ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #578421", " * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Robert Luberda ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #459868, #581011", " * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #594658", " * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #588014", " * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming", " Wording: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Aurelien Jarno ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Closes: #619186", " * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #504880", " * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Closes: #501930, #593909", " * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Seconded: Damyan Ivanov ", " Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi ", " Closes: #436105", " * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois ", " Closes: #561413", " * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Raphael Geissert ", " Closes: #218897", " * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois ", " * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #509932", " * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #400322", " * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Closes: #402721", " * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi ", " Closes: #475101", " * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Closes: #104373", " * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Cyril Brulebois ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Closes: #186102", " * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Closes: #184064", " * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Closes: #509933", " * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #589609", " * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Seconded: Ludovic Brenta ", " Closes: #232448", " * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst ", " Closes: #445203", " * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi ", " Seconded: Raphael Geissert ", " Closes: #477240", " * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " 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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Gregor Herrmann ", " Closes: #566220", " * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved", " ranges.", " Proposed by Santiago Vila", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Luk Claes ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Closes: #582495", "", " [ Russ Allbery ]", " * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Closes: #578854", " * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards", " Wording: Manoj Srivastava ", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Closes: #530687", " * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #562506", " * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Closes: #224509", " * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi ", " Closes: #569174", " * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Seconded: Jakub Wilk ", " Seconded: gregor herrmann ", " Closes: #284340", " * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Closes: #478295", " * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Closes: #555978", " * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Closes: #347581", " * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Closes: #575639", " * Policy: Update Format control field documentation", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Wording: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Charles Plessy ", " Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ", " Closes: #547272", " * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template", " Wording: Frans Pop ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Ben Pfaff ", " Closes: #560411", " * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version", " Wording: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Brendan O'Dea ", " Seconded: Damyan Ivanov ", " Closes: #579457", " * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL", " Wording: Niko Tyni ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " 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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " * 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " Closes: #530967", " * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables", " Wording: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Closes: #527871", " * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Raphael Hertzog ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " Closes: #514919", " * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf", " Wording: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Seconded: Adeodato Simó ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Closes: #519941", " * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #522217", " * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #493007", " * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding", " Wording: Colin Watson ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " Closes: #537707", " * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #533852", " * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #538665", " * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements", " Wording: Cyril Brulebois ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " [ Russ Allbery ]", " * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting", " Wording: Andrew McMillan ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Holger Levsen ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Closes: #206684", " * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception", " Wording: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #522219", " * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Closes: #522364", " * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category", " Wording: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Danjou ", " 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 ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " 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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Policy: Clarify what \"sensible behavior\" is for init scripts", " Wording: Steve Langasek ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Closes: #426877", " * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Ben Pfaff ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #489460", " * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Closes: #241333", " * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #143941", " * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #416450", " * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Closes: #473019", " * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Jörg Sommer ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #479080", " * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Kurt Roeckx ", " Seconded: Andrew McMillan ", " Closes: #470994", " * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh", " Wording: Kel Modderman ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ", " Closes: #513955", " * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile", " Wording: Colin Watson ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Bill Allombert ", " Closes: #514326", " * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #", " Wording: Russ Allbery ", " Seconded: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Adeodato Simó ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " 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 : notation rather than . 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", " Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog ", " Seconded: Manoj Srivastava ", " Seconded: Guillem Jover ", " Closes: #186700, #458910", " * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions", " Wording: Julien Cristau ", " Seconded: Russ Allbery ", " 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 (thanks, Sandro Tosi)", " Closes: #481640", " * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos", " Wording: Sandro Tosi ", " 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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Bug fix: \"clarify 12.3 Additional documentation\", thanks to Peter", " Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/\", thanks to Justin", " Pryzby (Closes: #375508).", " * Bug fix: \"various spelling mistakes\", thanks to Nico Golde", " (Closes: #375728).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo\", thanks to Peter Samuelson", " (Closes: #376104).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be", " world writable\", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).", " * Bug fix: \"policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;", " s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add", " quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?\", thanks to Justin Pryzby", " (Closes: #377215).", " * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in", " /usr/share/common-licenses\", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is", " premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we", " actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).", " * Bug fix: \"circular dependencies, improved guarantees\", thanks to Ian", " Jackson (Closes: #379630).", " * Bug fix: \"section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense\", thanks to Peter", " Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).", " * Bug fix: \"policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove", " case\", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not", " the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).", " * Bug fix: \"use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in", " prerm scripts\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms\",", " thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/with With/with /\", thanks to Justin Pryzby", " (Closes: #379974).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: \"$RET\" not \"RET\"\", thanks to Justin Pryzby", " (Closes: #386178).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:", " exceptiions\", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).", " * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers\", thanks", " to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'\",", " thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).", " * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver", " package\", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027)." ], "closes" : [ 367531, 367697, 370471, 373212, 375508, 375728, 376104, 376438, 377215, 378386, 379630, 379974, 380692, 382612, 385935, 386178, 387027, 388302 ], "epoch" : 1159828283, "timestamp" : "2006-10-02T22:31:23Z", "version" : "3.7.2.2" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;", " s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like", " like/look like/;\", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53\", thanks to Jordà", " Polo (Closes: #372497).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"", " should be "'.' character"\", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny", " (Closes: #372522).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt\",", " thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).", " * Bug fix: \"typo: package remains in and "Installed' state\", thanks", " to Sam Hocevar \\(Debian packages\\) (Closes: #369413).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies\", thanks to Stefan", " Huehner (Closes: #366032).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'\", thanks to", " Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new\", thanks", " to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola", " (Closes: #372148).", " * Bug fix: \"policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap\",", " thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).", " * Bug fix: \"debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section\",", " thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).", " * Bug fix: \"GNU office not on Temple Place anymore\", thanks to Dan", " Jacobson (Closes: #366889)." ], "closes" : [ 366032, 366466, 366889, 369011, 369413, 369912, 372147, 372148, 372497, 372522, 372731 ], "epoch" : 1150780699, "timestamp" : "2006-06-20T05:18:19Z", "version" : "3.7.2.1" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission", " when upgrading\", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).", " * Bug fix: \"[DISCUSS] documentation of the \"-fPIC\" constraint\", thanks", " to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard", " directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and", " static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when", " doing so. (Closes: #329762).", " * Bug fix: \"Minor typo in upgrading checklist\", thanks to David", " Weinehall (Closes: #364982).", " * Bug fix: \"Typo in upgrading-checklist\", thanks to David Weinehall", " (Closes: #364983).", " * Bug fix: \"typo in debian policy section 10.9.1\", thanks to Miguel Gea", " Milvaques (Closes: #365058).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some", " clarifications\", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).", " * Bug fix: \"11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11\", thanks to", " Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo in policy-process:", " "Guideliens"\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4\", thanks to", " Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).", " * Bug fix: \"typo in debian-policy\", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques", " (Closes: #365323)." ], "closes" : [ 136318, 329762, 360518, 364982, 364983, 364985, 365058, 365323, 365356, 365510 ], "epoch" : 1146673062, "timestamp" : "2006-05-03T16:17:42Z", "version" : "3.7.1.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low", "", " [ Manoj ]", " * Bug fix: \"policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel\", thanks to Joey", " Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon\",", " thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation\",", " thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).", " * Bug fix: \"Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =\", thanks to", " Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in", " summary (6.4)\", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).", " * Bug fix: \"UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)\", thanks to Martin", " Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy\", thanks to Tibor Csögör", " (Closes: #334913).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright", " Notice\", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error", " unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"\", thanks to", " Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers\", thanks", " to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",", " "rather that"\", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in", " section 8.1.1\", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be", " ${shlibs:Depends}\", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt\",", " thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).", " * Bug fix: \"Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1\", thanks to Marc 'HE'", " Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant", " non-US repository sections\", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine", " (Closes: #315470)." ], "closes" : [ 224770, 257726, 315470, 318147, 318214, 321790, 321792, 326633, 334819, 334913, 337539, 338493, 340189, 341992, 343933, 344310 ], "epoch" : 1135522072, "timestamp" : "2005-12-25T14:47:52Z", "version" : "3.6.2.2" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " Manoj:", " * Bug fix: \"policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register", " docs\", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).", " * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy\", thanks to", " Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was", " modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4\",", " thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went", " over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her", " constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).", " * Bug fix: \"XSI:ism in prerm and postinst\", thanks to David Weinehall", " (Closes: #260092).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.\", thanks to", " Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that", " section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).", " *", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source", " archive, and should clean them from the tree\", thanks to Branden", " Robinson (Closes: #284967).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script", " calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete\", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz", " and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into", " problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.", " (Closes: #286549).", " * Bug fix: \"9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking\",", " thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans", " suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an", " essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.", " (Closes: #291026).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting", " history\", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a", " directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an", " informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client\", thanks", " to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).", " * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: \"libexec\", or use of \"lib\" for", " binaries in lib* packages\", thanks to Junichi Uekawa", " (Closes: #146023).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem\", thanks to Bartosz", " Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).", " * Bug fix: \"Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential\",", " thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Please remove virtual package", " aspell-dictionary\", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).", " * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible", " images\", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*", " files\", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away", " when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).", " * Bug fix: \"please make names of alternate versions links\", thanks to", " Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's", " as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).", " * Bug fix: \"www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual\", thanks to", " Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a", " spell check run. (Closes: #309162)." ], "closes" : [ 89867, 146023, 203145, 216104, 222553, 239359, 260092, 270020, 273122, 276953, 284967, 286549, 286553, 290270, 291026, 295939, 308886, 309162 ], "epoch" : 1118971637, "timestamp" : "2005-06-17T01:27:17Z", "version" : "3.6.2.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 (Closes: #248788, 247761).", " * Bug fix: \"missing commas in subsections list\", thanks to Filippo", " Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL\", thanks to Manoj", " Srivastava (Closes: #244969).", " * Bug fix: \"bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)\", thanks to", " Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Small wording change\", thanks to Mike Paul", " (Closes: #252392).", " * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered", " Harmful\", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).", " * Bug fix: \"New virtual package: cron-daemon\", thanks to Adam Byrtek", " (Closes: #252086).", " Josip:", " * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.", " * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a", " footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,", " closes: #50565.", " * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes", " to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.", " * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.", " * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory", " according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.", " * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,", " closes: #75508.", " * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within", " source tarballs, closes: #79210.", " Andi:", " * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683", " * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484", " * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958", " * language adjustment. Closes: #227762", " * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.", " Closes: #185943, #237049" ], "closes" : [ 50565, 51832, 68827, 70742, 75508, 79210, 185943, 202054, 209855, 212153, 215524, 215558, 218530, 227762, 232364, 235484, 236614, 237049, 238958, 241683, 244969, 247143, 247761, 248618, 248786, 248788, 252086, 252392, 253324 ], "epoch" : 1088197658, "timestamp" : "2004-06-25T21:07:38Z", "version" : "3.6.1.1" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 tag, and changed it to where appropriate. This is", " since the tag can handle line breaking, but the flag does", " not. closes: Bug#139820", " * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely", " requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280", " * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660", " * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this", " should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704", " * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411", " * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a", " special field in the control file (and these should be added only", " after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755", " * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.", " closes: Bug#109672", " * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554", " closes: Bug#146756", " * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969", " * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the", " maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297", " * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067", " * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328", " * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default", " window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680", " * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been", " disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949", " * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new", " build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134", " * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate", " the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,", " since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441", " * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual", " packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977", " * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681", " * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697", " * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903", " * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.", " closes: Bug#143770", " * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965", " * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name", " and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472", " * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346", " * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525", " * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142", " * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.", " closes: Bug#150456", " * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703", " * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and", " this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546", " * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067", " * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608", " * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828", " * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025", " * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826", " * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311" ], "closes" : [ 47298, 69311, 81852, 97755, 100346, 100472, 106280, 106826, 109672, 111025, 112828, 113525, 114949, 116134, 118608, 131441, 134977, 137521, 138681, 139067, 139820, 139832, 139969, 140697, 141307, 141903, 143770, 144297, 144411, 145067, 146703, 146756, 147554, 150456, 151328, 152965, 153704, 154142, 154660, 155680, 156546, 157131 ], "epoch" : 1030778282, "timestamp" : "2002-08-31T07:18:02Z", "version" : "3.5.7.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the", " FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172", " * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to", " exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977", " * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713", " * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d", " scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_", " configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,", " either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles", " or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This", " does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any", " conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621", " * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521", " * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446", " * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705", " * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931", " * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131", " * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer", " wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If", " there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412", " * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996", " * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570", " * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781" ], "closes" : [ 51411, 51412, 110446, 110705, 110711, 110713, 121977, 122931, 122996, 123570, 126131, 131781, 132621, 137172, 137521 ], "epoch" : 1016129813, "timestamp" : "2002-03-14T18:16:53Z", "version" : "3.5.6.1" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,", " medium, high, emergency.", " * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,", " which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]", " * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional", " closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849", " * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition", " closes: Bug#102199", "", " * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461", " * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625", " * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc", " closes: Bug#100631", " * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for", " debian/rules closes: Bug#72335", " * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an", " informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and", " its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes", " the information provided. closes: Bug#105535", " * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.", " closes: Bug#105538" ], "closes" : [ 53849, 60461, 72335, 98291, 100631, 102199, 102204, 105535, 105538, 105625 ], "epoch" : 996029002, "timestamp" : "2001-07-25T02:43:22Z", "version" : "3.5.6.0" }, { "author" : "Julian Gilbey ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous", " 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly", " merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)", " * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from", " 3.0.0 onwards", " * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2", " * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS", " * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files", " * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of", " debian/rules to do this", " * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until", " patches are incorporated upstream", " * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm", " * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744", " * Made the \"where examples live\" entry in the upgrading-checklist", " clearer (add \"for use by scripts\")", " * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473", " * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove \"only if\")", " closes: Bug#89674", " * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows", " system closes: Bug#91249", " * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252", " * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259", " * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260", " * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261", " * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257", " * The \"man\" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information", " to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995", " * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072", " * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability", " * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023", " * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and", " mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906", " * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712" ], "closes" : [ 66023, 89473, 89674, 91249, 91252, 91257, 91259, 91260, 91261, 92744, 94995, 95906, 97072, 98712 ], "epoch" : 991388272, "timestamp" : "2001-06-01T09:37:52Z", "version" : "3.5.5.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052", " * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977", " * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the", " grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly", " Julian's fixes:", " * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation", " * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503", " * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.", " closes: Bug#86436", " * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.", " closes: Bug#87233" ], "closes" : [ 42052, 83977, 85503, 86436, 87233 ], "epoch" : 988482621, "timestamp" : "2001-04-28T18:30:21Z", "version" : "3.5.4.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 closes: Bug#84236" ], "closes" : [ 84236, 86507, 87007, 87711, 87828, 88651, 88788, 91276, 93047, 93620, 93705 ], "epoch" : 987359779, "timestamp" : "2001-04-15T18:36:19Z", "version" : "3.5.3.0" }, { "author" : "Julian Gilbey ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641", " * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)", " * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request", " * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry", " closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506", " closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514", " closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982", " closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001", " * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079", " * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up", " minor version number for this", " * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and", " correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)", " * Clarify error conditions for package installation", " (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)", " * Add the \"main\" section of each distribution (got left out by", " accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)", " * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)", " * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487", " * Removed bashism from debian/rules" ], "closes" : [ 83487, 84079, 84631, 84636, 84641, 85497, 85501, 85504, 85505, 85506, 85508, 85510, 85511, 85514, 85982, 85986, 85993, 86001 ], "epoch" : 982239180, "timestamp" : "2001-02-15T12:13:00Z", "version" : "3.5.1.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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\"", " ", " * 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 closes: Bug#83065", " * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891", " * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925", " * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to", " illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely", " informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about", " potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.", " closes: Bug#80506" ], "closes" : [ 75925, 79891, 80342, 80347, 80506, 82743, 82966, 83065, 83438, 83924, 83960 ], "epoch" : 980740756, "timestamp" : "2001-01-29T03:59:16Z", "version" : "3.5.0.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and", " root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to", " this version.", " * Document the Enhances relationship", " * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must", " maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879", " * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of", " policy. closes: Bug#53496", " * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages", " in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)", " closes: Bug#53700", " * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048", "", " * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most", " of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730", " * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154", " * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/", " closes: Bug#59403", " * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section", " that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765", " * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912", " * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked", " as conflicting closes: Bug#76028" ], "closes" : [ 51879, 53496, 53700, 55048, 55730, 57154, 59403, 65765, 66912, 76028 ], "epoch" : 979803838, "timestamp" : "2001-01-18T07:43:58Z", "version" : "3.2.1.2" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)", " * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal", " change in version number is because I suspect that this version is", " going to be buggy.", " closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949", " * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442", " * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643", " * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645", " * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822", " * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458", " * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into", " non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229", " * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list", " closes: Bug#77404", " * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650" ], "closes" : [ 62943, 69229, 70442, 70634, 70643, 72949, 77404, 77645, 77650, 78809, 78822, 82458 ], "epoch" : 979710811, "timestamp" : "2001-01-17T05:53:31Z", "version" : "3.2.1.1" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the \"to build with X support or", " not\" policy. closes: Bug#53759", " * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a", " clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of", " policy. closes: Bug#64437", " * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308", " * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\\.mail/root\\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668", " * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946", " * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947", " * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948", " * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516", " * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004", " * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006", " * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031", " * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424", " * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426", " * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is", " incorrect. closes: Bug#69487", " * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670", " * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522", " * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247", " * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes", " closes: Bug#50832", " * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and", " telnet-client closes: Bug#58759" ], "closes" : [ 46522, 48247, 50832, 53759, 58759, 61308, 62668, 62946, 62947, 62948, 64004, 64006, 64437, 64516, 69031, 69424, 69426, 69487, 69670 ], "epoch" : 967100790, "timestamp" : "2000-08-24T07:06:30Z", "version" : "3.2.1.0" }, { "author" : "Manoj Srivastava ", "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 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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Correct missing 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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//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//copyright, rather than", " /usr/doc/copyright/. closes: BUG#26461", "", " * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the", " architecture specification strings to be of the form -,", " 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

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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * New Maintainer " ], "closes" : [], "epoch" : 904959695, "timestamp" : "1998-09-05T01:41:35Z", "version" : "2.4.1.4" }, { "author" : "Philip Hands ", "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 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low", "", " * Initial Release.", " * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz ", " * 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 .", " * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',", " as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky .", " * 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", " .", " * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with", " \"strip --strip-unneeded\", by Guy Maor .", " * 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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "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 ", "changes" : [ "", "debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;", "", " * Draft releases." ], "closes" : [], "epoch" : 840636473, "timestamp" : "1996-08-21T14:07:53Z", "version" : "0.2.0.0" } ] }