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{
"preamble" : {
"cargo" : "releases",
"title" : "Debian Policy Releases"
},
"releases" : [
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Update alternatives system priorities for window managers",
" Wording: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #975631",
" * Policy: Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #992136",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Add new-version argument to several maintainer script calls",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #823256",
" * Policy: Essential packages must work only if previously configured",
" Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>",
" Seconded: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>",
" Closes: #1020267",
" * Prefer \"portion\" to \"stanza\" when describing parts of the Vcs-Git",
" header to avoid confusion with blocks of fields in deb822. Thanks to",
" Charles Plessy for pointing out the inconsistency.",
"",
" [ Guillem Jover ]",
" * Terminology fixes. (Closes: #1020248)",
" - Refer to blocks of fields in deb822 files as stanzas, not",
" paragraphs. This aligns terminology with dpkg and reduces confusion",
" with text paragraphs found in, for example, the Description field.",
" * Policy: Replace references to PGP with OpenPGP. (Closes: #1020243)",
" * Whitespace and quoting fixes. (Closes: #1020238)",
" - Remove trailing whitespace and convert tabs to spaces in all files.",
" - Avoid use of unbalanced single quotes.",
" * copyright-format: Formatting improvements. (Closes: #1020241)",
" - Put Source after Format in examples.",
" - Reformat GPL examples to be more compact.",
" - Use URLs rather than postal addresses in GPL examples.",
" - Move the comment about where the GPL can be found on Debian systems",
" to a separate Comment block in examples, rather than including it in",
" the License text.",
" - Apply wrap-and-sort -ast formatting to Files fields in the examples.",
"",
" [ Daniel Shahaf ]",
" * Add an English description of the format of bug closers in the",
" changelog file, alongside the Perl-compatible regular expression.",
" (Closes: #953911)"
],
"closes" : [
823256,
953911,
975631,
992136,
1020238,
1020241,
1020243,
1020248,
1020267
],
"epoch" : 1671244904,
"timestamp" : "2022-12-17T02:41:44Z",
"version" : "4.6.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * d/control: Add Homepage field (Closes: #1012879).",
" Thanks to Benjamin Drung for the suggestion.",
" * Upgrading checklist for 4.5.1: apply wording change from 07f1b39",
" (Closes: #1017095)."
],
"closes" : [
1012879,
1017095
],
"epoch" : 1660436014,
"timestamp" : "2022-08-14T00:13:34Z",
"version" : "4.6.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: Allow non-64-bit packages to install to /usr/lib64",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #992601",
" * Policy: Define 'upstream' & document several version conventions",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #542288, #850729",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add {default,}dbus-system-bus (Closes: #998063).",
" Thanks to Simon McVittie for the patch.",
" * Update 9.7.2 and 9.7.3 for package split of bin:mime-support into",
" bin:media-types and bin:mailcap (Closes: #1008480).",
" Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch.",
"",
" * Fix several problems with footnote regarding the autobuilders and",
" build dependency alternatives (Closes: #999826).",
" Thanks to Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues for the report and patch.",
" * Use syntax highlighting for some source code blocks (Closes: #999566).",
" Thanks to Stéphane Blondon for the patch."
],
"closes" : [
542288,
850729,
992601,
998063,
999566,
999826,
1008480
],
"epoch" : 1652292179,
"timestamp" : "2022-05-11T18:02:59Z",
"version" : "4.6.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.6.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Fix header of upgrading checklist entry for last release (Closes: #992414).",
" Thanks to Scott Talbert and Drew Parsons for reporting the problem."
],
"closes" : [
992414.0
],
"epoch" : 1629318110,
"timestamp" : "2021-08-18T20:21:50Z",
"version" : "4.6.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.6.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Allow manpages to be included in the dependencies of packages",
" Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #983657",
" * Policy: Support for subpaths in Vcs-Git",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
" Closes: #932696",
" * 4.4: Fix changelog format: needs an extra space before sign-off",
" (Closes: #976301).",
" Thanks to Anatoli Babenia for reporting the problem.",
" * autopkgtest: Update variable name ADTTMP->AUTOPKGTEST_TMP (Closes: #989581).",
" Thanks to Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly for reporting the problem.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Add new encouraged keyword, make keywords consistent",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #944920",
" * Clarify that no package may install files in /usr/lib64. The previous",
" wording implied this restriction only applied to 64-bit packages.",
" * Reserve the /etc/rcn.d directories for the init-system-helpers package",
" rather than the sysvinit package, reflecting a change already made in",
" the archive."
],
"closes" : [
932696,
944920,
976301,
983657,
989581
],
"epoch" : 1629256002,
"timestamp" : "2021-08-18T03:06:42Z",
"version" : "4.6.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: Relax requirements on copying copyright notices into d/copyright",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>",
" Seconded: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>",
" Closes: #955005",
" * Policy: Forbid vendor-specific series files",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>",
" Closes: #959909",
" * Policy: Clarification about colons in version numbers",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #971023",
" * Replace `/usr/share/package/copyright` -> `/usr/share/PACKAGE/copyright`.",
" Thanks to Guillem Jover for the suggestion.",
" * Fix manpage section in reference to systemd.unit(5) (Closes: #973491).",
" Thanks to Martin Schwarz for the report.",
" * Makefile: Always use UTC date (Closes: #974911).",
" Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian for the patch."
],
"closes" : [
955005,
959909,
971023,
973491,
974911
],
"epoch" : 1605571543,
"timestamp" : "2020-11-17T00:05:43Z",
"version" : "4.5.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.5.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Add a sample grep command for finding copyright notices in upstream",
" source code to an existing footnote in section 2.3.",
" * 3.2.1: tweak wording to avoid suggesting that Policy forbids using",
" Debian revisions for packages using a native source package format",
" (Closes: #953629).",
" Thank you to Ian Jackson for the suggestion.",
" * Switch back dh_linktree -> dh_sphinxdoc now that #658238 has been",
" resolved (Closes: #968664)",
" - Update substvars usage",
" - Drop linktree config",
" - Drop ${misc:Depends} -> ${linktree:Recommends} hack from d/rules.",
" We now just have ${sphinxdoc:Depends} in the Recommends: field."
],
"closes" : [
953629,
968664
],
"epoch" : 1597861491,
"timestamp" : "2020-08-19T18:24:51Z",
"version" : "4.5.0.3"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.5.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #959005).",
" Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report."
],
"closes" : [
959005.0
],
"epoch" : 1588108818,
"timestamp" : "2020-04-28T21:20:18Z",
"version" : "4.5.0.2"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.5.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Rename section \"Convenience copies of code\" -> \"Embedded code copies\"",
" (Closes: #955036).",
" * Use xelatex in Sphinx conf to deal with Unicode chars in input",
" (Closes: #955083).",
" - Add build-deps on texlive-xetex, fonts-freefont-otf, xindy."
],
"closes" : [
955036,
955083
],
"epoch" : 1585337678,
"timestamp" : "2020-03-27T19:34:38Z",
"version" : "4.5.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Clarify the footnote explaining why packages should not depend on X",
" fonts. Thanks, Stephen Kitt.",
" * Fix error in Perl example for the gain root command. Thanks, Niels",
" Thykier. (Closes: #949007)",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Packages including daemons should ship systemd units",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #941198",
" * Policy: New package usernames should begin with an underscore",
" Wording: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #949390",
" * Policy: Revise init script policy in light of GR result",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #948115",
" - This change involved changing a number of Sphinx anchor names. This",
" may break some external links into Policy.",
" * Fix 'day-of week'.",
" Thanks to Jakub Wilk."
],
"closes" : [
941198,
948115,
949007,
949390
],
"epoch" : 1579549029,
"timestamp" : "2020-01-20T19:37:09Z",
"version" : "4.5.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.4.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Drop implementation details of sysvinit runlevels",
" Wording: Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #941194",
" See also #943583.",
" * Fix \"set -e\" extraneous whitespace (Closes: #943880).",
" Thanks Sven Joachim for the patch.",
" * Fix 'multple' typo (Closes: #944407).",
" Thanks Ansgar for the patch.",
" * Improve some phrasing in 7.8 (Closes: #944325).",
" Thank you to Nicholas D Steeves for pointing out the problem and Russ",
" Allbery for the new text.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Remove mention of the old Packaging Manual from the package",
" description. This is ancient history and no longer likely to be",
" helpful. Thanks, Holger Levsen. (Closes: #941835)",
" * Add missing close brackets to the examples in the Diversions",
" appendix. Thanks, Abou Al Montacir.",
" * Add explicit :manpage: markup to links to manual pages.",
" * Fix anchor syntax for s-signalingreboot section.",
" * Fix broken markup in a footnote about sponsored uploads. Thanks,",
" Guillem Jover. (Closes: #944332)"
],
"closes" : [
941194,
941835,
943880,
944325,
944332,
944407
],
"epoch" : 1575076152,
"timestamp" : "2019-11-30T01:09:12Z",
"version" : "4.4.1.2"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.4.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Add /run/reboot-required change to the upgrading checklist",
" (Closes: #941475)."
],
"closes" : [
941475.0
],
"epoch" : 1570112996,
"timestamp" : "2019-10-03T14:29:56Z",
"version" : "4.4.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.4.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: Only one Vcs-<type> field is permitted",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #931975",
" * Policy: Document /run/reboot-required mechanism",
" Wording: Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Closes: #919507",
" * Policy: doc-base now optional, not recommended",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #910783",
" * Copyright format: state syntactical restrictions on Files: field",
" Wording: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #688481"
],
"closes" : [
688481,
910783,
919507,
931975
],
"epoch" : 1569780709,
"timestamp" : "2019-09-29T18:11:49Z",
"version" : "4.4.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.4.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #932359).",
" Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report.",
" * Clarify using more than one VCS-* field.",
" Thanks to Guillem Jover for reporting the problem and Russ Allbery for",
" the patch."
],
"closes" : [
932359.0
],
"epoch" : 1563480069,
"timestamp" : "2019-07-18T20:01:09Z",
"version" : "4.4.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Recommend use of dh",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
" Closes: #930666",
" * Policy: Permit -b in Vcs-Hg as well as Vcs-Git",
" Wording: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #897217, #920355",
" * Policy: Document versioned Provides:",
" Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #761219",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add logind, default-logind",
" Wording: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #917431",
" * Add text to header of the virtual packages list describing the",
" \"(versioned)\" annotation.",
" * Fix reference to FHS section in Policy 9.1.2.",
" Thanks to Juuso \"Linda\" Lapinlampi for the patch.",
" (Closes: #922654)",
" * Process: Rewrite description of 'obsolete' usertag.",
" * Process: Add 'stalled' usertag.",
" * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the",
" copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file",
" (Closes: #928199).",
" This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Fix formatting of the debian_revision explanation in Policy 5.6.12.",
" Thanks to Emmanuel Arias for the patch."
],
"closes" : [
761219,
897217,
917431,
920355,
922654,
928199,
930666
],
"epoch" : 1562510441,
"timestamp" : "2019-07-07T14:40:41Z",
"version" : "4.4.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.3.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Add link to jenkins.debian.net build of Policy (Closes: #921963).",
" Thanks, Holger Levsen.",
" * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #921889).",
" Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report."
],
"closes" : [
921889,
921963
],
"epoch" : 1551311991,
"timestamp" : "2019-02-27T23:59:51Z",
"version" : "4.3.0.3"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.3.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Rebuild against newer libjs-sphinxdoc (Closes: #921889).",
" Thanks Gabriele Stilli for the report."
],
"closes" : [
921889.0
],
"epoch" : 1549757148,
"timestamp" : "2019-02-10T00:05:48Z",
"version" : "4.3.0.2"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Correct heading in upgrading checklist \"Version 4.2.2\"->\"Version 4.3.0\"."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 1545563464,
"timestamp" : "2018-12-23T11:11:04Z",
"version" : "4.3.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: Update recommendations for stripping binaries and shlibs",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Closes: #188731",
" * Policy: Slightly relax when copyright information need be included verbatim",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #912581",
" * Policy: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree",
" Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #845715",
" * Policy: Packages should not contain a non-default series file",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #850156",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add dbus-session-bus, default-dbus-session-bus",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #833401",
" * In a preexisting footnote, recommend passing -D to strip(1) when",
" stripping static libraries.",
" Thanks to Niels Thykier for the suggestion.",
" * Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.",
" * Convert virtual-package-names-list to YAML (Closes: #914383).",
" Thanks to Jonathan Dowland for the patch.",
" * Append missing '.git' to Vcs-Git."
],
"closes" : [
188731,
833401,
845715,
850156,
912581,
914383
],
"epoch" : 1545560275,
"timestamp" : "2018-12-23T10:17:55Z",
"version" : "4.3.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.1.5) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.",
" * Replace a 'can' with a 'may' for readability in 7.7 (Closes: #824495).",
" Thanks to Santiago Vila for reporting the problem.",
" * Update location of sample init.d script (Closes: #913295).",
" Thanks to Dmitry Bogatov for the patch.",
" * Document in 1.1 that not all bugs are Policy violations (Closes: #913659).",
" Thanks to Ian Jackson for the patch."
],
"closes" : [
824495,
913295,
913659
],
"epoch" : 1542472599,
"timestamp" : "2018-11-17T16:36:39Z",
"version" : "4.2.1.5"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Increase ToC depth 3->4 (Closes: #912059)."
],
"closes" : [
912059.0
],
"epoch" : 1540665059,
"timestamp" : "2018-10-27T18:30:59Z",
"version" : "4.2.1.4"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Update URI to d-i internals manual (Closes: #906910).",
" Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch.",
" * Crosslink and deduplicate 4.9 and 10.1.",
" These sections both include discussion of the verbosity of build logs",
" and compiler warnings.",
" * Add policy/definition.txt to .gitignore."
],
"closes" : [
906910.0
],
"epoch" : 1540064179,
"timestamp" : "2018-10-20T19:36:19Z",
"version" : "4.2.1.3"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * README.md: drop mention of 'dbnpolicy' UNIX group, which has now been",
" deleted.",
" * Upgrading checklist: drop the word 'maximally', to match the change to",
" section 4.9 made in release 4.2.1.0.",
" * README.md: add steps to add a new language.",
" * Use Sphinx replacements to insert the version and date into index.rst,",
" rather than substituting it in during the build (Closes: #909079).",
" This means that .po files are invalidated slightly less frequently.",
" Thanks to Hideki Yamane for the patch.",
" * Rebuild to update Recommends: field (Closes: #910561)."
],
"closes" : [
909079,
910561
],
"epoch" : 1539120350,
"timestamp" : "2018-10-09T21:25:50Z",
"version" : "4.2.1.2"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Drop stray colon in 4.9.",
" Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for pointing this out.",
" * New \"Seeking seconds for a patch\" section in README.md.",
" Ralf Treinen suggested recommending that those who propose patches",
" include word diffs and/or side-by-side diffs.",
" * README.md: remove a lot of outdated information, some wordsmithing,",
" and rearrangement to highlight opportunities for contribution.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Add a footnote warning that different SONAMEs of the same shared",
" library cannot always be made safely co-installable, but these",
" exceptions are complex and beyond what Policy can explain.",
" (Closes: #901437)"
],
"closes" : [
901437.0
],
"epoch" : 1535920029,
"timestamp" : "2018-09-02T20:27:09Z",
"version" : "4.2.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy & Perl Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'must' -> 'should'",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #906901",
" * Fix inconsistent wording in 4.9 by dropping the word 'maximally'",
" (Closes: #905251).",
" Thanks to several people who pointed out this issue, both in the BTS",
" and in person.",
"",
" * Demote libjs-sphinxdoc hard dependencies to recommendations by using",
" an override_dh_linktree stanza (Closes: #906139).",
" Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian and Sven Joachim for the report and Ian",
" Jackson for suggesting the fix.",
" * README.md improvements:",
" - Add references to salsa:dbnpolicy/policy-l10n-merge-requests-here",
" repo.",
" - Improve the description of the release process (Closes: #905909)",
" Thanks Osamu Aoki for the patch.",
" - Add a link to the new 'by-complexity' BTS view.",
" - Some other small fixes (Closes: #905696).",
" Thanks Helge Kreutzmann for pointing them out.",
" * Update and alphabetise lists of the Policy delegates in various places."
],
"closes" : [
905251,
905696,
905909,
906139,
906901
],
"epoch" : 1535227554,
"timestamp" : "2018-08-25T20:05:54Z",
"version" : "4.2.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Hideki Yamane ]",
" * Partial translation of Policy Manual chs. 1--3 into Japanese.",
" - Add debian-policy-ja binary package.",
" * Infrastructure for translations.",
" - New build dependency on sphinx-intl.",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Switch dh_sphinxdoc->dh_linktree.",
" dh_sphinxdoc gets confused by the use of sphinx-intl.",
" - New build dependency on dh-linktree.",
" * Bump copyright years in d/copyright.",
" * Refer to rST source, not SGML source, in d/copyright.",
" * Add section 1.6, \"Translations\".",
" * Add \"Translation\" subsection to README.md.",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton & Ian Jackson ]",
" * Simplify and rework Hideki's Makefile & dh_{auto_,}install changes."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 1533295914,
"timestamp" : "2018-08-03T11:31:54Z",
"version" : "4.2.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: Standards-Version field is mandatory",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Closes: #886258",
" * Policy: Builds should be verbose & 'terse' DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS flag",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
" Closes: #628515",
" * Policy: Required targets may attempt some network access",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Closes: #813471",
" * Policy: Installation of upstream release notes and changelogs",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Closes: #459427",
"",
" * Add a third paragraph to 1.3.3 encouraging the submission of patches",
" to document new techniques sooner rather than later, while making it",
" clear that updating the Policy Manual should never block making other",
" improvements to Debian.",
" * Tweak wording in a sentence in 1.1.",
" * Add a note to the README about why salsa merge requests are turned off.",
"",
" * Stop installing policy-1.html because Sphinx's singlehtml output is",
" too buggy at present (Closes: #873456, #876075, #879048).",
" See also #877367. Thanks to Paul Wise for switching the web mirrors",
" away from policy-1.html.",
"",
" * license-count: improve regex for some Creative Commons licenses.",
" Thanks Jonathan Dowland for the patch.",
" * Fix some indentation in ch-archive.rst.",
" Thanks Hideki Yamane for the patch."
],
"closes" : [
459427,
628515,
813471,
873456,
876075,
879048,
886258
],
"epoch" : 1533174213,
"timestamp" : "2018-08-02T01:43:33Z",
"version" : "4.2.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: Update section 4.1, \"Standards conformance\"",
" Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #901160",
" * Policy: Require d-devel consultation for each epoch bump",
" Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>",
" Closes: #891216",
" * Policy: Document Rules-Requires-Root",
" Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>",
" Closes: #880920",
" * Policy: Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
" Closes: #864615",
" * Policy: Update version of FHS from 2.3 to 3.0",
" Wording: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #787816",
" * Add reference link to section 4.1 to section 5.6.11."
],
"closes" : [
787816,
864615,
880920,
891216,
901160
],
"epoch" : 1530701350,
"timestamp" : "2018-07-04T10:49:10Z",
"version" : "4.1.5.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.4.2) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Fix URL to the alioth lists service in footnote (Closes: #896749).",
" Thanks Martin Zobel-Helas for the report.",
" * Tidy up \"Authors and Maintainers\":",
" - Add subsections to separate the record of the document's history",
" from the description of how it is presently maintained",
" - Correct claims about the role of the manual's maintainers: the",
" Policy Editors actually do have editorial power, thanks to our",
" DPL delegation, but we further delegate this power to the",
" Policy Changes Process."
],
"closes" : [
896749.0
],
"epoch" : 1528619533,
"timestamp" : "2018-06-10T08:32:13Z",
"version" : "4.1.4.2"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Fix some errors in upgrading checklist.",
" Thanks to several people for noticing these.",
" Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for a patch.",
" * Soften wording in upgrading checklist for removal of get-orig-source",
" target.",
" Thanks Helmut Grohne for the new wording.",
" * Fix sample postinst in 9.1.2 to comply with new required permissions",
" for /usr/local (Closes: #895136).",
" Thanks to Niels Thykier for noticing the problem, and for the new",
" sample script.",
" - Reorder 9.1.2 so that details of the permissions requirement appear",
" before the sample postinst.",
" This ensures that the complexity of the sample postinst makes sense",
" to the reader."
],
"closes" : [
895136.0
],
"epoch" : 1523117581,
"timestamp" : "2018-04-07T16:13:01Z",
"version" : "4.1.4.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Drop get-orig-source rules target",
" Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Closes: #515856",
" * Policy: Update required permissions for /usr/local",
" Wording: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>",
" Seconded: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #299007",
" * Policy: Document debian/missing-sources",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
" Closes: #742364",
" * Policy: Uniqueness of version numbers",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #881431",
" * Update recommendations dh_systemd_* -> dh_installsystemd (Closes: #889167).",
" Thanks Chris Lamb for the report.",
" * Fix some typos (Closes: #886890).",
" Thanks Sebastian Rasmussen for the patch.",
" * Fix some errors in shell script snippets caused by the rST conversion",
" script (Closes: #888437).",
" Thanks Yao Wei for the patch.",
" * Fix version of init-system-helpers required for `defaults-disabled`",
" option from 1.5.0 to 1.50.",
" Thanks to GengYu Rao for noting this on the debian-policy list.",
" * Fix indentation of description of the clean target (Closes: #889960).",
" Thanks Ferenc Wágner for the report.",
"",
" [ Jonathan Nieder ]",
" * Use default-mta instead of exim in dependency example (Closes: #892142).",
" Thanks to Paul Wise for the report."
],
"closes" : [
299007,
515856,
742364,
881431,
886890,
888437,
889167,
889960,
892142
],
"epoch" : 1522944496,
"timestamp" : "2018-04-05T16:08:16Z",
"version" : "4.1.4.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses",
" Wording: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #859649, #882628",
" * Policy: Clarify when Built-Using should be used",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #688251",
" * Policy: Use update-rc.d's defaults-disabled instead of DISABLED=yes",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Closes: #522163, #601455, #661496",
" - Also explain how the local administrator can enable/disable",
" autostarting daemons using update-rc.d.",
" * Point Vcs-* fields at salsa.debian.org.",
" * README: update references & URIs alioth->salsa",
" * Maintainer field: \"Debian Policy List\"->\"Debian Policy Editors\"",
" To match our new group on salsa.debian.org.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Recommend that Vcs-* URLs provide confidentiality",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Closes: #810381",
" * Policy: Clarify that programs may search PATH for editor and pager",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #880992",
" * Policy: Allow libc to install files in /lib64",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #885219",
" * Use the term 'synopsis' consistently in copyright-format. Thanks, Ben",
" Finney. (Closes: #874095)",
" * Fix various minor wording issues and add additional cross-references",
" in copyright-format. Thanks, Ben Finney. (Closes: #874090)",
" * Adapt tools/license-count to run against ftp-master metadata instead",
" of the Lintian lab, add patterns for CC0-1.0, and add some comments on",
" how to run this tool."
],
"closes" : [
522163,
601455,
661496,
688251,
810381,
859649,
874090,
874095,
880992,
882628,
885219
],
"epoch" : 1514412835,
"timestamp" : "2017-12-27T22:13:55Z",
"version" : "4.1.3.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'should' -> 'must'",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
" Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>",
" Closes: #683495",
" * Policy: Update where private shared object files may be installed",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Closes: #636383",
" * Policy: Convention for naming packages with potentially offensive content",
" Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org>",
" Closes: #882445",
" * Update links to other formats in 1.2 (Closes: #877674).",
" Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the patch.",
" * Fix duplication in upgrading checklist.",
" /nonexistent as the canonical home directory was listed under 4.1.1",
" and 4.1.0.",
" * Miscellaneous spelling fixes (Closes: #878523).",
" Thanks to Ville Skyttä for the patch.",
" * Drop workarounds in d/rules for the (reopened) dh_sphinxdoc bug #872863.",
" Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for fixing the bug.",
" - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.",
" * Add a footnote documenting limitations on build-dependency",
" alternatives imposed by Debian's autobuilders (Closes: #614807).",
" Thanks to Sean Finney for the patch, and Simon McVittie for reviewing."
],
"closes" : [
614807,
636383,
683495,
877674,
878523,
882445
],
"epoch" : 1512080585,
"timestamp" : "2017-11-30T22:23:05Z",
"version" : "4.1.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Fix some broken links in singlehtml output (Closes: #877573).",
" Thanks to Paul Wise for pointing out the problem."
],
"closes" : [
877573.0
],
"epoch" : 1507090965,
"timestamp" : "2017-10-04T04:22:45Z",
"version" : "4.1.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Add back missing parentheses around the man page section in man page",
" references in the Policy manual, lost in the conversion to",
" reStructuredText. Thanks, Daniel Shahaf.",
" * Revert the contents of the policy.html directory to the multi-page",
" HTML output. (Closes: #872895)",
" * Move the single-page HTML output to policy-1.html, matching the",
" previous file name, and add the supporting _images and _static",
" directories to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy.",
" * Remove the stray policy.html.tar.gz file from the built package.",
" (Closes: #872896)",
" * Simplify the build rules for generating policy.html.",
" * Remove some stray build rules left over from DocBook Policy.",
" * Restructure the document to ensure proper section numbering in info",
" and PDF output except for the appendices. The appendix numbering",
" will require a Sphinx change. (Closes: #872893, #872950)",
" * Rename the info document to debian-policy.info to make it less",
" generic, and update the PNG file names accordingly. (Closes: #872900)",
" * Reformat the shared libraries chapter (8) to move footnotes to the end",
" of the section of their references and use more succinct",
" reStructuredText syntax. Fix some errors in the shlibs syntax and",
" examples introduced by the conversion, and missing newlines in the",
" footnote illustrating alternative templates that were lost in the",
" DocBook translation.",
" * Add a footnote documenting a (complex) command that returns the Debian",
" package name for a shared library. Thanks, Jakub Wilk and Julien",
" Cristau. (Closes: #661928)",
" * Add build dependency on latexmk. (Closes: #873125)",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: debian/changelog must exist in source packages",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>",
" Closes: #683222",
" * Policy: /nonexistent is the canonical non-existent home directory",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Closes: #679751",
" * Policy: Correct the description of Testsuite: field",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #870915",
" Thanks to Ondřej Nový for pointing out the problem.",
" * Fix a typo in 4.1.0 upgrading checklist (Closes: #873819).",
" Thanks, Martin Kepplinger.",
" * Add missing line breaks in summary of the ways in which maintainer",
" scripts may be called (Closes: #874411).",
" Thanks Sébastian Villemot for reporting the issue, and for the patch.",
" * Drop workarounds for dh_sphinxdoc's lack of support for singlehtml.",
" Thanks Dmitry Shachnev for the new support in dh_sphinxdoc.",
" - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common."
],
"closes" : [
661928,
679751,
683222,
870915,
872893,
872895,
872896,
872900,
872950,
873125,
873819,
874411
],
"epoch" : 1506630466,
"timestamp" : "2017-09-28T20:27:46Z",
"version" : "4.1.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Packages should build reproducibly",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #844431",
" * Policy: Restrictions on the use of /lib64/ and /usr/lib64/",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #630174",
" * Policy: Clarify how `x-terminal-emulator -e` must behave",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #648271",
" * Fix a singular/plural error in 9.6.",
" Thanks to Didier Raboud for pointing out the problem.",
" * Improve release process documentation in README.md.",
" * Policy changes process:",
" - Deprecate usage of the 'issue' usertag",
" It is usually very clear whether an issue is a policy matter, so bugs",
" can be simply closed, or moved to the 'discussion' phase.",
" In the rare case that it's not clear whether the bug is a policy matter,",
" it can remain unclassified, or be tagged 'moreinfo' (see below).",
" - Add policy-specific usage for the 'moreinfo' tag.",
" * tools/policy-bug-report:",
" - Enhance to fetch bugs that have a given usertag or combination of",
" usertags",
" - Improve the lists of bugs generated, for posting to Planet Debian.",
" * Add convention to upgrading checklist for indicating that a policy",
" requirement is covered by Lintian.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Recommend including the upstream signing key",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
" Closes: #732445",
" * Policy: Clearly allow non-default alternative non-free dependencies",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Closes: #587279",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery & Sean Whitton ]",
" * Convert the source of the Debian Policy Manual to reStructuredText,",
" built using the Sphinx toolchain.",
" Many thanks to Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> for the conversion",
" scripts, and pushing the project forward.",
" Thanks to David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> for help proofreading the",
" output.",
" - Drop PostScript output."
],
"closes" : [
587279,
630174,
648271,
732445,
844431
],
"epoch" : 1503350262,
"timestamp" : "2017-08-21T21:17:42Z",
"version" : "4.1.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367",
" * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Closes: #640263",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Policy: Disambiguate \"original authors\" in 12.5",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>",
" Closes: #678607",
" * Policy: Document Testsuite: field",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Closes: #758124",
" * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers",
" Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Closes: #822430",
" * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems",
" Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #835520",
" * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry",
" Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>",
" Seconded: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>",
" Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
" Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>",
" Closes: #839172",
" * Convert Process.md to an appendix to Policy itself.",
" - Update link in \"Authors and Maintainers\" to point to this new",
" appendix (Closes: #866192).",
" * Incorporate Margarita Manterola's maintscript flowcharts as a new",
" appendix (Closes: #485776).",
" Many thanks to David Bremner for help importing the images to docbook.",
" - Add a footnote to 6.6 linking to the new appendix.",
" * Update first paragraph of Appendix A to note that the final three",
" appendices (the policy changes process and the upgrading checklist)",
" were not taken from the Packaging Manual.",
" * Add a footnote linking to the REJECT-FAQ (Closes: #849853).",
" * Note that the debian/rules clean target is useless for removing files",
" not compatible with the DFSG (Closes: #849851).",
" * Add 'javascript', 'rust' archive sections (Closes: #867308).",
" * Drop remark that systems with only required packages installed are",
" \"probably unusable\", and add a paragraph break. (Closes: #589671)."
],
"closes" : [
196367,
485776,
589671,
640263,
660249,
678607,
758124,
758234,
759260,
822430,
835520,
839172,
849851,
849853,
866192,
867308
],
"epoch" : 1501984067,
"timestamp" : "2017-08-06T01:47:47Z",
"version" : "4.0.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.0.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Fix URLs to Policy documents. Policy previously used the full URL as",
" the link but a partial URL as anchor text, and then sometimes added",
" the full URL in parentheses. The result was very ugly in the text",
" version. Replace that style with just the full URL as anchor text for",
" a link to that URL, which is not ideal for HTML output but produces",
" reasonable results for both HTML and text.",
" * Extensive reformatting of the maintainer script section.",
" - Use <cmdsynopsis> in the summary of how maintainer scripts are",
" called, with a single <term>. This avoids gluing all the command",
" summaries together with commas. The output in text is radically",
" better; HTML has some font issues, but isn't awful.",
" - Avoid trailing newlines in <screen> examples, which produce extra",
" whitespace in text and HTML output.",
" - Use different numeration methods at different levels of the nested",
" ordered lists and ensure there is some introductory text for each",
" list element to avoid awkward formatting.",
" * Convert many of the <screen> tags in Policy to </programlisting> since",
" the semantics are slightly more correct.",
" * Remove the newline before </screen> or </programlisting> end tags,",
" since it produces an extraneous and distracting blank line in both",
" text and HTML output.",
" * Change the mapping of Perl module names to Debian package names in",
" the Perl Policy from a verbatim block to a table.",
" * Change the list of cron directories from a verbatim block to a list."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 1498448067,
"timestamp" : "2017-06-26T03:34:27Z",
"version" : "4.0.0.4"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.0.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Fix typo 'the' -> 'they' in upgrading checklist (Closes: #865685).",
" Thanks Sven Joachim for the report.",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Move the autopkgtest, copyright-format, and debconf_specification",
" source files to the top-level directory and the debconf_spec/include",
" files to a debconf directory. Simplify the build system to eliminate",
" recursive make, reuse the same XML version file for all files, and use",
" the same method of embedding a version in Markdown output for all",
" files.",
" * Fix dependencies so that version.xml is generated before XML",
" validation is done on XML source files.",
" * Move README.shlibdeps and libc6-migration.txt to a new historical",
" subdirectory and add a README explaining that the files in this",
" directory are of historical interest only and are not included in the",
" debian-policy binary package."
],
"closes" : [
865685.0
],
"epoch" : 1498338679,
"timestamp" : "2017-06-24T21:11:19Z",
"version" : "4.0.0.3"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Update list of Policy Editors in various places.",
" See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/06/msg00005.html",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Remove mention of the libc6 migration paper from the package long",
" description. This is no longer shipped in the debian-policy package."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 1497931108,
"timestamp" : "2017-06-20T03:58:28Z",
"version" : "4.0.0.2"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Upload to unstable.",
" * Clarify the conflict policy between /path and /usr/path by adding the",
" leading slash in front of the first path. Thanks, Ferenc Wágner.",
" * Change http URLs to https for every resource available over https.",
" * Replace broken CPAN URL in the Perl policy with the current URL, and",
" turn this into an in-line link rather than a footnote with the full",
" URL. This hides the URL in the text output, but it's not horribly",
" important for the text version and easy to find with a search.",
" * Fix formatting of the list of shlibs and symbol file locations. These",
" were mistakenly converted to itemized lists instead of variable lists",
" during the DocBook conversion, which produced inferior output.",
" * Use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 as the character set for the text",
" versions of policy documents.",
" * Further standardize author and copyright notices.",
" - Add the notice from the main document that the copyright notices are",
" incomplete to the other documents with copyright notices.",
" - Add the Debian Policy Mailing List as an author of the debconf",
" specification.",
" - Replace (incorrect) Software in the Public Interest copyrights with",
" copyright notices for the original authors.",
" - Standardize capitalization of Debian Policy Mailing List in notices.",
" - Update copyright notices in debian/copyright.",
" * Add a full copy of the BSD license without advertising clause to the",
" <legalinfo> section of the debconf specification, instead of just a",
" reference to it.",
" * Update the GPL license statements to the current recommended form,",
" which doesn't include a street address for the FSF. Use all-caps for",
" the warranty disclaimer just in case it matters. Link to the general",
" FSF license page to make it easier to find the GPLv2, which is",
" technically the license under which these documents are distributed,",
" even if the GPLv3 may be used if desired.",
" * Completely rewrite the build system to use debhelper.",
" - Remove all hand-rolled package build rules and let debhelper do the",
" package construction.",
" - Remove gzip compression from the main build and let debhelper handle",
" compression of text files. This allows debhelper to control the",
" gzip flags and do whatever is correct for reproducible builds.",
" - The top-level Makefile now has conventional all and install targets",
" that build all documents and would install them (not that anyone is",
" likely to use the install target other than the packaging).",
" - Get the document publication dates from debian/changelog instead of",
" the current date for more reproducible builds.",
" - Do xmllint validation of the copyright-format and debconf",
" specification documents as well.",
" - Remove a bunch of old leftovers from the clean and distclean targets",
" and make distclean identical to clean. Stop cleaning editor",
" autosave files and patch droppings (this can be destructive).",
" - Move all doc-base files into the debian packaging directory.",
" * Restructure the command list in the debconf specification document to",
" pass xmllint, which didn't like including the body of an itemizedlist",
" as an XML entity.",
" * Add missing release date to the 4.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry.",
" * Fix tools/policy-bug-report to not fail when bug lists are empty and",
" to ignore closed bugs.",
" * Don't delete virtual-package-names-list.txt during make distclean.",
" * Make distclean depend on clean to remove stamp-* files.",
" * Update Standards-Version of the debian-policy package itself."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 1497839268,
"timestamp" : "2017-06-19T02:27:48Z",
"version" : "4.0.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Andreas Barth ]",
" * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #768292",
" * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>",
" Thanks: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Closes: #792853",
" * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>",
" Closes: #746514",
" * Spelling fixes, thanks to Martin A. Brown. Closes: #820197",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: [10.9] Don't contact base-passwd maintainer for dynamic users",
" Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #841877",
" * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch",
" Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #823910",
" * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #759186",
" * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin",
" Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>",
" Closes: #759492",
" * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph",
" Wording: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #819660",
" * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags",
" Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #793493",
" * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly",
" Wording: Ondřej Nový <onovy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Closes: #833177",
" * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages",
" Wording: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Closes: #823348",
" * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>",
" Closes: #850646",
" * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev",
" Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Closes: #568374",
" * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended",
" Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ondřej Nový <novy@ondrej.org>",
" Closes: #181123",
" * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run",
" Wording: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>",
" Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #852314",
" * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Closes: #698012",
" * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart",
" Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Closes: #835490",
" * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support",
" Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
" Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #798309",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure",
" Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Closes: #821859",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Brian May <bam@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #768117",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages",
" Wording: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #829367",
" * Convert all remaining DebianDoc-SGML source files in the package to",
" DocBook XML. Many thanks to Osamu Aoki and Guillem Jover for lots of",
" hard work on the conversion. This was a huge conversion, so there",
" will probably be some lingering formatting issues, incorrect markup,",
" and less-than-ideal output. Please report any problems as bugs.",
" (Closes: #175064, #700532, #809382)",
" * Additional fixes from Guillem Jover as part of the DocBook conversion:",
" - Stop distributing the source SGML files as part of the installed",
" package. There doesn't seem to be any point in doing this.",
" - Switch to xsltproc and dblatex instead of OpenJade.",
" - Stop using tidy on the generated files since it generates larger",
" files and the output from xsltproc is already compliant and fairly",
" clean.",
" - Remove unused Build-Depends.",
" - Use entities instead of literal <, >, and & characters.",
" - Use <var> instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables.",
" - Use <var> instead of <em> inside <tt>.",
" - Avoid slashes in section IDs.",
" - Convert a comment about maintenance policy in the Menu Policy",
" document to a regular paragraph in the document.",
" - Replace a comment reference to the policy maintenance process with",
" an actual link to Process.md.",
" - Remove obsolete SGML comments.",
" * Move the description of < and > relations to a footnote to make",
" abundantly clear that they're no longer valid relation operators in",
" dependencies. (Closes: #816515)",
" * Clarify informative mentions of debian/tmp in the appendices to",
" document the now-common use of debian/<pkg> instead as the temporary",
" staging area. Document that convention, instead of",
" debian/tmp-something, for multi-binary packages. Thanks, Niels",
" Thykier. (Closes: #816249)",
" * Remove lingering wording that implied that build-arch and build-indep",
" targets are optional. Thanks, Ferenc Wagner, Jakub Wilk, and Charles",
" Plessy. (Closes: #793999)",
" * Rather than giving the paths to the installed shlibs and symbols files",
" and then saying those paths shouldn't be used, just say to use",
" dpkg-query --control-show. Recommend --control-show instead of",
" --control-path, since the latter is deprecated. Patch from Salvatore",
" Bonaccorso. (Closes: #688220)",
" * Explicitly give Unicode code points in the definition of the syntax of",
" Debian control files and, where appropriate, show the character.",
" Patch from Ben Finney. (Closes: #821365)",
" * Remove obsolete footnote about a versioned dependency on a",
" liblockfile1 release from 1999. Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #794902)",
" * Fix the long name of the Common Public License in the copyright-format",
" policy. It is just Common Public License, with no leading \"IBM\".",
" Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli. (Closes: #781654)",
" * Fix the copyright-format examples to not have duplicate License",
" paragraphs. Thanks, Stefan <bd@bc-bd.org>. (Closes: #824922)",
" * Replace reference to dbus-launch in the autopkgtest documentation with",
" dbus-run-session. Patch from Simon McVittie. (Closes: #835876)",
" * Add an example of an architecture restriction in a dependency with",
" multiple architectures separated by spaces. (Closes: #734662)",
" * Replace use of markdown with MultiMarkdown for the autopkgtest",
" documentation and convert README and Process to MultiMarkdown, thus",
" dropping the last org-mode files and the build dependency on Emacs.",
" Patch from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #849483)",
" * Add some additional information to the upgrading-checklist entry for",
" the 3.9.8.0 release.",
" * Fix debian/changelog and upgrading-checklist dates for the 3.9.8.0",
" release to match the actual upload. (Closes: #822059)",
" * Fix duplicated \"the\" words in 4.4 and 8.6.3.2. Patch from Valentin",
" Samir. (Closes: #830989)",
" * Clean up the upgrading checklist a bit:",
" - Rewrite the introduction to read a bit more smoothly and mention",
" that the Standards-Version value omits the minor patch number.",
" - Remove the minor patch number from all the version headings except",
" for the anomalies that contain normative changes, and note those",
" explicitly.",
" - Remove some unhelpful section headings and trailing colons in very",
" old upgrading checklist entries.",
" - Standardize the release date format.",
" * Compress all files with gzip -n to avoid embedding timestamps,",
" enabling reproducible builds.",
" * Redo some of the Makefile and debian/rules dependencies to avoid",
" ambiguous pattern rules and to ensure that make at the top level",
" rebuilds output files if input files change.",
" * Switch to https URLs for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser.",
" * Use the same URL for both Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser, which now works",
" fine and has some advantages over the gitweb version for Vcs-Browser.",
" Thanks, Mattia Rizzolo.",
" * Run wrap-and-sort -ast.",
" * Tag as Multi-Arch: foreign (mostly to silence the hinter).",
"",
" [ Sean Whitton ]",
" * Remove references to DebianDoc-SGML from README.md.",
" * Fix typo & comma splice in Process.md."
],
"closes" : [
175064,
181123,
568374,
688220,
698012,
700532,
734662,
746514,
759186,
759492,
768117,
768292,
781654,
792853,
793493,
793999,
794902,
798309,
809382,
816249,
816515,
819660,
820197,
821365,
821859,
822059,
823348,
823910,
824922,
829367,
830989,
833177,
835490,
835876,
841877,
849483,
850646,
852314
],
"epoch" : 1495999627,
"timestamp" : "2017-05-28T19:27:07Z",
"version" : "4.0.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium",
"",
" * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported.",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (for the menu entries)",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #707851"
],
"closes" : [
707851.0
],
"epoch" : 1459914598,
"timestamp" : "2016-04-06T03:49:58Z",
"version" : "3.9.8.0"
},
{
"author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.",
" * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.",
" * debian/control, Makefile:",
" - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663",
" - migrate to openjade and opensp.",
" * debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478",
" * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.",
" Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>",
" Closes: #555979",
" * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.",
" Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #765499",
" * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in",
" the debian/control file of a source package.",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #666726",
" * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network",
" access.",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>",
" Closes: #770016",
" * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'",
" in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Closes: #106073",
"",
" [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]",
" * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,",
" as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests",
" Closes: #799779"
],
"closes" : [
106073,
555979,
666726,
765499,
770016,
797478,
799779,
812663
],
"epoch" : 1454364231,
"timestamp" : "2016-02-01T22:03:51Z",
"version" : "3.9.7.0"
},
{
"author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>",
" for the help. Closes: #769219"
],
"closes" : [
769219.0
],
"epoch" : 1416221755,
"timestamp" : "2014-11-17T10:55:55Z",
"version" : "3.9.6.1"
},
{
"author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Bill Allombert ]",
" * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from",
" the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.",
" * debian/control:",
" - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999",
" Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.",
" * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.",
" * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and",
" applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.",
" * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo \"by\" -> be. Closes: #753353.",
" Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.",
" * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)",
" Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Closes: #731810",
" * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.",
" Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>",
" Closes: #741304",
" * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2",
" Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Closes: #748480",
" * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier",
" Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
" Closes: #748479",
" * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch",
" Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
" Closes: #748380",
" * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*",
" dependency",
" Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>",
" Closes: #750017",
" * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #742756",
" * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #555980",
" * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #593611",
" * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>",
" Closes: #491547",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list",
" Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>",
" Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Closes: #754876",
" * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi",
" Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>",
" Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>",
" Closes: #588497",
" [ Jonathan Nieder ]",
" * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>",
" or /usr/lib<qual> does.",
" Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #613143"
],
"closes" : [
491547,
555980,
588497,
593611,
613143,
731810,
737730,
740100,
741304,
742756,
748380,
748479,
748480,
750017,
753353,
753999,
754876
],
"epoch" : 1410977000,
"timestamp" : "2014-09-17T18:03:20Z",
"version" : "3.9.6.0"
},
{
"author" : "Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Policy: Document the Package-List field.",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #697433",
" * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #679326",
" * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #690293",
" * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #698030",
" * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #669915",
" * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.",
" Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #715804",
" * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>",
" Closes: #701081",
" * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.",
" Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>",
" Closes: #720507",
" * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #707183",
" * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.",
" Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Closes: #707077",
" * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.",
" Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #706778",
" * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #671355",
" * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.",
" Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Closes: #668394",
" * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover",
" * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.",
" Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.",
" * Update dak reference from old katie name.",
" Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.",
" * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)",
" * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.",
" * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.",
" Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.",
" * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.",
" Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.",
" * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.",
" Closes: #705403",
" * Clarify what is meant by \"compressed\" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)",
" * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.",
" * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool \"config-model-edit\".",
" * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors."
],
"closes" : [
668394,
669915,
671355,
676784,
679326,
690293,
691352,
697433,
698030,
700536,
700574,
701081,
703022,
704657,
705403,
706778,
707077,
707183,
715804,
720507
],
"epoch" : 1382920848,
"timestamp" : "2013-10-28T00:40:48Z",
"version" : "3.9.5.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,",
" implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording",
" review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.",
" (Closes: #374029)",
" * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.",
" Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)",
" * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>",
" Closes: #661933",
" * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations",
" Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #663918",
" * Policy: Document the Built-Using field",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>",
" Closes: #641153",
" * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #654958",
" * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy",
" Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #676561",
" * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #571776",
" * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements",
" Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>",
" Closes: #591791",
" * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #661816"
],
"closes" : [
374029,
571776,
591791,
641153,
654958,
661816,
661933,
663918,
670429,
676561
],
"epoch" : 1348029336,
"timestamp" : "2012-09-19T04:35:36Z",
"version" : "3.9.4.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source",
" package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)",
" * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.",
" Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)",
" and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and",
" Ben Finney.",
" * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking",
" whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending",
" dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)",
" * Remove the ambiguous word \"installed\" when requiring that the location",
" of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)",
" * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not",
" contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)",
" * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided",
" (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist",
" or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some",
" of the wording. (Closes: #601839)",
" * Clearly state that \"yes\" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed",
" and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)",
" * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to",
" reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam",
" Morris. (Closes: #658009)",
" * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent",
" copyright notice.",
" * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf",
" specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make",
" non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's",
" good to know which version one is looking at.",
" * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.",
" * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html",
" directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on",
" www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to",
" work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)",
" * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz",
" without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just",
" the current version.",
" * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading",
" checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.",
" * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.",
" * Expand package long description to include all documents.",
" * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,",
" Charles Plessy.",
" * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,",
" references to old files no longer included, use a more standard",
" layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better",
" maintainability.",
" * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process",
" add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself",
" and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement",
" for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents."
],
"closes" : [
490604,
601839,
622263,
638060,
647645,
658009,
661412
],
"epoch" : 1330902132,
"timestamp" : "2012-03-04T23:02:12Z",
"version" : "3.9.3.1"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the",
" DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion",
" in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more",
" examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve",
" Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.",
" (Closes: #658209, #648387)",
" * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so",
" that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of",
" the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)",
" * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package",
" Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #626779",
" * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Closes: #593533",
" * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions",
" Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>",
" Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>",
" Closes: #609162",
" * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #23712",
" * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>",
" Closes: #620870, #532120",
" * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty",
" Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
" Closes: #498300",
" * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy",
" Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Closes: #89038",
" * Consistently use \"Debian source control file\" for *.dsc files and",
" \"Source package control file\" for debian/control files. Patch from",
" Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)",
" * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must",
" contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.",
" (Closes: #627490)",
" * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if",
" the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)",
" * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level",
" directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,",
" Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)",
" * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl",
" source package and the manual page extensions are different for",
" separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)",
" * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,",
" bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line",
" with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)",
" * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding",
" education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles",
" Plessy. (Closes: #651020)",
" * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or",
" Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly",
" addresses #587279.",
" * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,",
" Slavko.",
" * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.",
" * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.",
" * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,",
" Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)",
" * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,",
" when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link",
" to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.",
" * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.",
" * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.",
" * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.",
"",
" [ Bill Allombert ]",
" * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification",
" strings (11.1).",
" Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.",
" * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)",
" Proposed by: Justin B Rye",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Closes: #621479",
" * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.",
" Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.",
" Closes: #623050",
" * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.",
" Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540",
" * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #641071",
" * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright",
" files (12.5)",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Closes: #617516",
" * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix",
" Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Closes: #640735",
" * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.",
" Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #649674",
" * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:",
" Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>",
" Closes: #633797",
" * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #640737",
" * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger",
" Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #619275",
" * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to",
" fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.",
" Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Closes: #644230",
" * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.",
" Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>",
" Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
" Closes: #578421",
" * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #637614"
],
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23712,
89038,
498300,
532120,
578421,
593533,
609162,
617315,
617516,
619275,
620870,
621479,
623050,
626338,
626408,
626779,
626796,
627490,
628540,
633797,
637614,
640735,
640737,
641071,
643690,
644230,
646119,
646166,
648387,
649674,
651020,
658209
],
"epoch" : 1329968436,
"timestamp" : "2012-02-23T03:40:36Z",
"version" : "3.9.3.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #459868, #581011",
" * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #594658",
" * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #588014",
" * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming",
" Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #619186",
" * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #504880",
" * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #501930, #593909",
" * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
" Closes: #488214",
" * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host",
" architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than",
" machine. (Closes: #591857)",
" * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package",
" description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)",
" * Use the word \"implemented\" to describe required targets in",
" debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List",
" the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the",
" paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules",
" as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)",
" * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories",
" to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the",
" multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.",
" (Closes: #597074)",
" * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly",
" the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ",
" Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)",
" * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply",
" Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch",
" from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)",
" * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.",
" * Update the list of Policy maintainers.",
" * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.",
" * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use",
" -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary",
" packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older",
" than the version in oldstable.",
" * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated",
" from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean",
" files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the",
" list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)",
" * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.",
" Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)",
" * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section",
" 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan",
" Nieder. (Closes: #599944)",
" * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.",
" This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the",
" 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars",
" Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy",
" package. (Closes: #609160)"
],
"closes" : [
459868,
488214,
501930,
504880,
536790,
581011,
588014,
590696,
591857,
593909,
594274,
594542,
594656,
594658,
597074,
599944,
606869,
609160,
619186
],
"epoch" : 1302155335,
"timestamp" : "2011-04-07T05:48:55Z",
"version" : "3.9.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
" Closes: #436105",
" * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" Closes: #561413",
" * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>",
" Closes: #218897",
" * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #509932",
" * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #400322",
" * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Closes: #402721",
" * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
" Closes: #475101",
" * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Closes: #104373",
" * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Closes: #186102",
" * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Closes: #184064",
" * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #509933",
" * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #589609",
" * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>",
" Closes: #232448",
" * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>",
" Closes: #445203",
" * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>",
" Closes: #477240",
" * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #555977",
" * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy",
" package.",
" * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and",
" provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)",
" * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the",
" switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly",
" mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.",
" * Introduce \"control information file\" to refer to the contents of the",
" Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use",
" that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing",
" references to fields in control files to use \"control field\"",
" uniformly.",
" * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally",
" an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular",
" maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)",
" * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)",
" * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)",
" * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces."
],
"closes" : [
104373,
175202,
184064,
186102,
218897,
232448,
400322,
402721,
436105,
445203,
475101,
477240,
509932,
509933,
555977,
561413,
588750,
589362,
589605,
589609
],
"epoch" : 1280111901,
"timestamp" : "2010-07-26T02:38:21Z",
"version" : "3.9.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Colin Watson ]",
" * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.",
"",
" [ Bill Allombert ]",
" * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better",
" looking .txt file.",
" Closes: #567845",
" * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.",
" Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)",
" * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information",
" and distribution license' (three times).",
" Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #566220",
" * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved",
" ranges.",
" Proposed by Santiago Vila",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Closes: #582495",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #578854",
" * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards",
" Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Closes: #530687",
" * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #562506",
" * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Closes: #224509",
" * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>",
" Closes: #569174",
" * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>",
" Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>",
" Closes: #284340",
" * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Closes: #478295",
" * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Closes: #555978",
" * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Closes: #347581",
" * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Closes: #575639",
" * Policy: Update Format control field documentation",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #547272",
" * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template",
" Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>",
" Closes: #560411",
" * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version",
" Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>",
" Closes: #579457",
" * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL",
" Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #579461",
" * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,",
" renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform",
" capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)",
" * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature",
" is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the",
" dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy",
" was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)",
" * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a",
" new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)",
" * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and",
" don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)",
" * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current",
" sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which",
" contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)",
" * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This",
" list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already",
" noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.",
" * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)",
" * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more",
" traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and",
" README.html. (Closes: #584521)",
" * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)",
" * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe",
" Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)",
" * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete",
" configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)",
" * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied",
" for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the",
" description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why",
" this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)",
" * Avoid \"Debianised\" or \"Debianized\" in favor of just \"Debian\" or",
" \"Debian package\" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.",
" (Closes: #586163)",
" * Switch to source format 3.0 (native)."
],
"closes" : [
224509,
284340,
328951,
347581,
442134,
470633,
478295,
530687,
547272,
555009,
555978,
558430,
560411,
560839,
562506,
563425,
566220,
567845,
569174,
572253,
575639,
576594,
577666,
578854,
579457,
579461,
582495,
584521,
584796,
586163
],
"epoch" : 1277700052,
"timestamp" : "2010-06-28T04:40:52Z",
"version" : "3.9.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Bill Allombert ]",
" * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.",
" Proposed by Jari Aalto.",
" Closes: #544353",
" * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.",
" Proposed by Enrico Zini.",
" Closes: #550192",
"",
" [ Manoj Srivastava ]",
" * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for",
" pointing this out.",
" * [c74ac74]:",
" Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories",
" Wording: Steve Langasek.",
" Seconded: Aurelien Jarno",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx",
" Closes: #542865",
" * [7ac3ee6]:",
" virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages",
" Wording: Manoj Srivastava",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery",
" Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi",
" Closes: #518199",
" * [8fd91a0]",
" README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode",
" Wording: Manoj Srivastava",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery",
" Closes: #545548",
" * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:",
" policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors",
" wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava",
" * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions",
" policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions",
" Wording: Manoj Srivastava",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Closes: #556972",
" This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional",
" directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.",
" * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line",
" policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line",
" Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Explicitly state that \"make -f debian/rules\" and \"./debian/rules\"",
" must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote",
" reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.",
" * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package",
" policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon",
" wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Closes: #391836",
" Create a virtual cron daemon package that:",
" - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries",
" - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d",
" - Correct support of /etc/crontab",
" - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,",
" ranges, step values",
" - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to",
" avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.",
" (Closes: #552757)"
],
"closes" : [
391836,
518199,
542865,
544353,
545548,
550192,
552757,
556972
],
"epoch" : 1264616563,
"timestamp" : "2010-01-27T18:22:43Z",
"version" : "3.8.4.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Closes: #530967",
" * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables",
" Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Closes: #527871",
" * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Closes: #514919",
" * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf",
" Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #519941",
" * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #522217",
" * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #493007",
" * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding",
" Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>",
" Closes: #537707",
" * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #533852",
" * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #538665",
" * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements",
" Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Closes: #525190",
" * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop",
" warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)",
" * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section",
" on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)",
" * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an",
" approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)",
" * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in",
" the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)",
" * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual",
" and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent",
" revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)",
" * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.",
" * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications",
" for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and",
" add more details about the contents of the Description field in",
" a *.changes file.",
" * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and",
" Source field descriptions.",
" * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the",
" sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams",
" and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)",
" * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field",
" description says otherwise."
],
"closes" : [
493007,
514919,
519941,
522217,
525190,
527871,
529771,
530967,
533577,
533852,
534408,
537707,
538665,
539389,
541537
],
"epoch" : 1250381606,
"timestamp" : "2009-08-16T00:13:26Z",
"version" : "3.8.3.0"
},
{
"author" : "Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Russ Allbery ]",
" * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting",
" Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #206684",
" * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception",
" Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>",
" Closes: #522219",
" * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>",
" Closes: #522364",
" * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category",
" Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>",
" Closes: #522218",
" * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):",
" - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.",
" - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)",
" * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.",
" (Closes: #519706)",
"",
" [ Colin Watson ]",
" * The FHS is the \"Filesystem Hierarchy Standard\", regardless of our",
" preferred spelling of \"file system\" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby",
" search-and-replace capitalisation bug.",
" * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by",
" debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.",
" Closes: #533257",
" * Policy: State requirements for source package names",
" Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Closes: #525151",
" * Add myself to Uploaders.",
"",
" [ Bill Allombert ]",
" * Add myself to Uploaders.",
" * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).",
" * debian/rules:",
" - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form",
" `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.",
" - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums."
],
"closes" : [
206684,
519706,
519835,
522218,
522219,
522364,
525151,
533257
],
"epoch" : 1245181373,
"timestamp" : "2009-06-16T19:42:53Z",
"version" : "3.8.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Policy: Clarify what \"sensible behavior\" is for init scripts",
" Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #426877",
" * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #489460",
" * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Closes: #241333",
" * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #143941",
" * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #416450",
" * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Closes: #473019",
" * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #479080",
" * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>",
" Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>",
" Closes: #470994",
" * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh",
" Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>",
" Closes: #513955",
" * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile",
" Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>",
" Closes: #514326",
" * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #446712",
" * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions",
" in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion",
" on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger",
" for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)",
" * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies",
" in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the",
" explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong",
" for wording review. (Closes: #163666)",
" * Change the term \"category\" to \"archive area\" when referring to main,",
" contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social",
" Contract. (Closes: #473439)",
" * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in",
" multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)",
" * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi",
" Noritada. (Closes: #487701)",
" * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with",
" extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)",
" * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf",
" messages. Capitalize \"Debian Configuration Management Specification\"",
" uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)",
" * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for",
" extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option",
" behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)",
" * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero",
" status on success to avoid double-negatives.",
" * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the",
" portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category",
" lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)",
" * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to",
" be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far",
" fewer packages.",
" * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now",
" handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc",
" links was completed long ago.",
" * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright."
],
"closes" : [
143941,
163666,
241333,
416450,
426877,
446712,
470994,
473019,
473439,
479080,
483418,
487701,
488039,
489460,
491985,
492624,
503685,
511804,
513955,
514326
],
"epoch" : 1236829852,
"timestamp" : "2009-03-12T03:50:52Z",
"version" : "3.8.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process",
" document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)"
],
"closes" : [
484706.0
],
"epoch" : 1212696781,
"timestamp" : "2008-06-05T20:13:01Z",
"version" : "3.8.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] \"debian/README.source\" file for packages with",
" non-trivial source\", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,",
" and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).",
" * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding\", thanks to",
" Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in",
" DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS\", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert",
" Millan (Closes: #209008).",
" * Bug fix: \"Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS\", thanks to",
" Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover",
" (Closes: #430649).",
" * Bug fix: \"Documentation for Breaks in dpkg\", thanks to Ian Jackson",
" (Closes: #379150).",
" * Bug fix: \"support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory\"",
" (Closes: #431813).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages\",",
" thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,",
" Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).",
" * Bug fix: \"Homepage field in debian/control undocumented\", thanks to",
" Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).",
" * Bug fix: \"Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer",
" used\", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson",
" (Closes: #442070).",
" * Bug fix: \"Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in",
" /usr/share/common-licenses\", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).",
" * Bug fix: \"[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is",
" not a part of Debian distribution\", thanks to Taketoshi Sano",
" (Closes: #65577).",
" * Bug fix: \"scripts as configuration files: should vs. must\", thanks to Frank",
" Küster (Closes: #403391).",
" * Bug fix: \"debconf specification should allow underscores in template",
" names\", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).",
" * Bug fix: \"clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs\",",
" thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).",
" * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>",
" Closes: #186700, #458910",
" * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions",
" Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>",
" Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
" Closes: #480551",
" * Bug fix: \"Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now\", thanks",
" to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).",
" * Bug fix: \"Minor typos and wording suggestions\", thanks to Michael",
" Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).",
" * Bug fix: \"substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to",
" deb-substvars(5)\", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).",
" * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed",
" Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)",
" Closes: #481640",
" * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos",
" Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>",
" Closes: #481954",
" * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.",
" * Add an md5sums control file.",
" * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.",
" * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.",
" * Remove more temporary files created by the build.",
" * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are",
" currently part of policy.",
" * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.",
" * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.",
" * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts",
" and debian/rules."
],
"closes" : [
65577,
186700,
209008,
250202,
291460,
367984,
379150,
392362,
403391,
422552,
430649,
431813,
440420,
442070,
452105,
455602,
458910,
473761,
475731,
480551,
481640,
481954
],
"epoch" : 1212620007,
"timestamp" : "2008-06-04T22:53:27Z",
"version" : "3.8.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"FTBFS if built twice in a row\" (Closes: #424212).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers\", thanks",
" to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).",
" * Bug fix: \"Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that",
" /bin/sh can be expected to offer\". Also add test -a/-o binary logical",
" operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).",
" * Bug fix: \"[Proposal] new Debian menu structure\", thanks to Bill",
" Allombert (Closes: #361418).",
" * Bug fix: \"typo: \"must not be not world-writable\"\", thanks to Sam",
" Hocevar (Closes: #392594).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead\",",
" thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).",
" * Bug fix: \"New virtual package: dictd-dictionary\", thanks to Tatsuya",
" Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).",
" * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.",
" Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita",
" and Marco d'Itri.",
" * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of",
" virtual packages.",
" * Bug fix: \"Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy\",",
" thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).",
" * Bug fix: \"Source field of .changes files may contain a version number\"",
" (Closes: #431813).",
" * Bug fix: \"822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)\" (Closes: #448035).",
" * Bug fix: \"5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative",
" list?\" (Closes: #412634).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs",
" files\", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).",
" * Bug fix: \"Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf",
" templates\", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).",
" * Bug fix: \"GFDL is now in common-licenses\". Also add the rest of the",
" specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).",
" * Bug fix: \"Virtual package for Japanese font packages",
" (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)\", thanks to Nobuhiro",
" Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).",
" * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the",
" debconf specification.",
" * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.",
" * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required)."
],
"closes" : [
294962,
361418,
363133,
382612,
392594,
402975,
412634,
413575,
418444,
420701,
424212,
431813,
435207,
440931,
448035
],
"epoch" : 1196663635,
"timestamp" : "2007-12-03T06:33:55Z",
"version" : "3.7.3.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"clarify 12.3 Additional documentation\", thanks to Peter",
" Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/\", thanks to Justin",
" Pryzby (Closes: #375508).",
" * Bug fix: \"various spelling mistakes\", thanks to Nico Golde",
" (Closes: #375728).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo\", thanks to Peter Samuelson",
" (Closes: #376104).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be",
" world writable\", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).",
" * Bug fix: \"policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;",
" s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add",
" quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
" (Closes: #377215).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in",
" /usr/share/common-licenses\", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is",
" premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we",
" actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).",
" * Bug fix: \"circular dependencies, improved guarantees\", thanks to Ian",
" Jackson (Closes: #379630).",
" * Bug fix: \"section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense\", thanks to Peter",
" Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).",
" * Bug fix: \"policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove",
" case\", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not",
" the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).",
" * Bug fix: \"use of &quot;invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?&quot; in",
" prerm scripts\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms\",",
" thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/with With/with /\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
" (Closes: #379974).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: \"$RET\" not \"RET\"\", thanks to Justin Pryzby",
" (Closes: #386178).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:",
" exceptiions\", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers\", thanks",
" to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'\",",
" thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).",
" * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver",
" package\", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027)."
],
"closes" : [
367531,
367697,
370471,
373212,
375508,
375728,
376104,
376438,
377215,
378386,
379630,
379974,
380692,
382612,
385935,
386178,
387027,
388302
],
"epoch" : 1159828283,
"timestamp" : "2006-10-02T22:31:23Z",
"version" : "3.7.2.2"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: s/control are/&amp;a/; s/stats/status/;",
" s/and/an/; s/'/&quot;/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/&amp; that/; s/like",
" like/look like/;\", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53\", thanks to Jordà",
" Polo (Closes: #372497).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: &quot;'..' character&quot;",
" should be &quot;'.' character&quot;\", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny",
" (Closes: #372522).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt\",",
" thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).",
" * Bug fix: \"typo: package remains in and &quot;Installed' state\", thanks",
" to Sam Hocevar \\(Debian packages\\) (Closes: #369413).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies\", thanks to Stefan",
" Huehner (Closes: #366032).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'\", thanks to",
" Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new\", thanks",
" to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola",
" (Closes: #372148).",
" * Bug fix: \"policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap\",",
" thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section\",",
" thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).",
" * Bug fix: \"GNU office not on Temple Place anymore\", thanks to Dan",
" Jacobson (Closes: #366889)."
],
"closes" : [
366032,
366466,
366889,
369011,
369413,
369912,
372147,
372148,
372497,
372522,
372731
],
"epoch" : 1150780699,
"timestamp" : "2006-06-20T05:18:19Z",
"version" : "3.7.2.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Revert the cgi-lib change.",
" * Bug fix: \"Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and",
" Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)\", thanks to Christoph Berg",
" Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.",
" (Closes: #328951).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning\",",
" thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907)."
],
"closes" : [
328951,
365907
],
"epoch" : 1146697639,
"timestamp" : "2006-05-03T23:07:19Z",
"version" : "3.7.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission",
" when upgrading\", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).",
" * Bug fix: \"[DISCUSS] documentation of the \"-fPIC\" constraint\", thanks",
" to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard",
" directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and",
" static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when",
" doing so. (Closes: #329762).",
" * Bug fix: \"Minor typo in upgrading checklist\", thanks to David",
" Weinehall (Closes: #364982).",
" * Bug fix: \"Typo in upgrading-checklist\", thanks to David Weinehall",
" (Closes: #364983).",
" * Bug fix: \"typo in debian policy section 10.9.1\", thanks to Miguel Gea",
" Milvaques (Closes: #365058).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some",
" clarifications\", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).",
" * Bug fix: \"11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11\", thanks to",
" Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo in policy-process:",
" &quot;Guideliens&quot;\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4\", thanks to",
" Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).",
" * Bug fix: \"typo in debian-policy\", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques",
" (Closes: #365323)."
],
"closes" : [
136318,
329762,
360518,
364982,
364983,
364985,
365058,
365323,
365356,
365510
],
"epoch" : 1146673062,
"timestamp" : "2006-05-03T16:17:42Z",
"version" : "3.7.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin\", thanks to",
" Brian White. (Closes: #32263).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem",
" Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3\", thanks to Tobias Burnus",
" (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).",
" * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in",
" debian/control\", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,",
" except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which",
" may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space",
" is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must",
" allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).",
" * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with",
" language extentions\", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).",
" * Bug fix: \"init script stop example should use --oknodo\", thanks to",
" Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).",
" * Bug fix: \"policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different",
" gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck",
" interpreter)\", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something",
" to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common",
" licenses. (Closes: #355263).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions\", thanks",
" to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing",
" legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone",
" anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to",
" have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was",
" uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which",
" it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the",
" current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.",
" (Closes: #357613).",
" * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if",
" available, mandatory\", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).",
" * Bug fix: \"no longer current regarding X font paths\", thanks to Joey",
" Hess (Closes: #362247).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or",
" mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove\",",
" thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular",
" dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular",
" dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the",
" dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at",
" some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their",
" dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending",
" on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen",
" to be on. (Closes: #362975).",
" * Bug fix: \"8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must",
" provide/\", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.",
" (Closes: #341232).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:",
" redundant info about exit status\", thanks to Daniel Bonniot",
" (Closes: #349010).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of",
" upgrading-checklist.txt.gz\", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default\",",
" thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/",
" dpkg-statoverride\", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).",
" * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to",
" Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as",
" relevenat\", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the",
" http servers out there. (Closes: #117916)."
],
"closes" : [
32263,
117916,
148194,
190753,
199849,
212434,
230217,
341232,
342611,
344158,
346598,
349010,
349775,
355263,
357613,
359817,
361137,
362247,
362975
],
"epoch" : 1146027376,
"timestamp" : "2006-04-26T04:56:16Z",
"version" : "3.7.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" [ Manoj ]",
" * Bug fix: \"policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel\", thanks to Joey",
" Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon\",",
" thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation\",",
" thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).",
" * Bug fix: \"Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =\", thanks to",
" Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in",
" summary (6.4)\", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).",
" * Bug fix: \"UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)\", thanks to Martin",
" Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy\", thanks to Tibor Csögör",
" (Closes: #334913).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright",
" Notice\", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing &quot;Error",
" unwind:&quot; for &quot;new-postrm abort-upgrade&quot;\", thanks to",
" Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers\", thanks",
" to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: &quot;ends .sh&quot;,",
" &quot;rather that&quot;\", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in",
" section 8.1.1\", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be",
" ${shlibs:Depends}\", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt\",",
" thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).",
" * Bug fix: \"Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1\", thanks to Marc 'HE'",
" Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant",
" non-US repository sections\", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine",
" (Closes: #315470)."
],
"closes" : [
224770,
257726,
315470,
318147,
318214,
321790,
321792,
326633,
334819,
334913,
337539,
338493,
340189,
341992,
343933,
344310
],
"epoch" : 1135522072,
"timestamp" : "2005-12-25T14:47:52Z",
"version" : "3.6.2.2"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz\", thanks",
" to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).",
" * Bug fix: \"x-session-manager already in use, so please add to",
" virtual-package-names-list.txt\", thanks to Christopher Martin",
" (Closes: #313626).",
" * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations\", thanks",
" to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to",
" virtual-package-names-list.txt\", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633)."
],
"closes" : [
294633,
310113,
313626,
314569
],
"epoch" : 1119073694,
"timestamp" : "2005-06-18T05:48:14Z",
"version" : "3.6.2.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Manoj:",
" * Bug fix: \"policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register",
" docs\", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).",
" * Bug fix: \"[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy\", thanks to",
" Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was",
" modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4\",",
" thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went",
" over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her",
" constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).",
" * Bug fix: \"XSI:ism in prerm and postinst\", thanks to David Weinehall",
" (Closes: #260092).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.\", thanks to",
" Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that",
" section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).",
" *",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source",
" archive, and should clean them from the tree\", thanks to Branden",
" Robinson (Closes: #284967).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script",
" calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete\", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz",
" and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into",
" problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.",
" (Closes: #286549).",
" * Bug fix: \"9.3.3.2 &quot;command -v&quot; example needs tweaking\",",
" thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans",
" suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an",
" essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.",
" (Closes: #291026).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting",
" history\", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a",
" directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an",
" informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client\", thanks",
" to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).",
" * Bug fix: \"[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: \"libexec\", or use of \"lib\" for",
" binaries in lib* packages\", thanks to Junichi Uekawa",
" (Closes: #146023).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem\", thanks to Bartosz",
" Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).",
" * Bug fix: \"Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential\",",
" thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Please remove virtual package",
" aspell-dictionary\", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).",
" * Bug fix: \"[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible",
" images\", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*",
" files\", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away",
" when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).",
" * Bug fix: \"please make names of alternate versions links\", thanks to",
" Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's",
" as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).",
" * Bug fix: \"www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual\", thanks to",
" Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a",
" spell check run. (Closes: #309162)."
],
"closes" : [
89867,
146023,
203145,
216104,
222553,
239359,
260092,
270020,
273122,
276953,
284967,
286549,
286553,
290270,
291026,
295939,
308886,
309162
],
"epoch" : 1118971637,
"timestamp" : "2005-06-17T01:27:17Z",
"version" : "3.6.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Manoj:",
" * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg",
" in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855",
" * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153",
" * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524",
" * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558",
" * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation",
" incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies",
" caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not",
" included in this variable and must be explicitly included.",
" closes: Bug#202054",
" * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the",
" version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows",
" developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their",
" packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in",
" this section. closes: Bug#248618",
" * Bug fix: \"Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section",
" 3.6\", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).",
" * Bug fix: \"Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section",
" 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.\", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and",
" Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).",
" * Bug fix: \"missing commas in subsections list\", thanks to Filippo",
" Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL\", thanks to Manoj",
" Srivastava (Closes: #244969).",
" * Bug fix: \"bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)\", thanks to",
" Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: Small wording change\", thanks to Mike Paul",
" (Closes: #252392).",
" * Bug fix: \"debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered",
" Harmful\", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).",
" * Bug fix: \"New virtual package: cron-daemon\", thanks to Adam Byrtek",
" (Closes: #252086).",
" Josip:",
" * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.",
" * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a",
" footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,",
" closes: #50565.",
" * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes",
" to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.",
" * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.",
" * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory",
" according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.",
" * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,",
" closes: #75508.",
" * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within",
" source tarballs, closes: #79210.",
" Andi:",
" * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683",
" * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484",
" * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958",
" * language adjustment. Closes: #227762",
" * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.",
" Closes: #185943, #237049"
],
"closes" : [
50565,
51832,
68827,
70742,
75508,
79210,
185943,
202054,
209855,
212153,
215524,
215558,
218530,
227762,
232364,
235484,
236614,
237049,
238958,
241683,
244969,
247143,
247761,
248618,
248786,
248788,
252086,
252392,
253324
],
"epoch" : 1088197658,
"timestamp" : "2004-06-25T21:07:38Z",
"version" : "3.6.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Josip:",
" * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,",
" closes: #193748.",
" Manoj:",
" * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian",
" hosted server. closes: Bug#187297",
" * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728",
" * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses",
" --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not",
" running. closes: Bug#187250",
" * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of",
" the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440",
" * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while",
" removing the package. closes: Bug#188030",
" * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the",
" user closes: Bug#176506"
],
"closes" : [
176506,
187250,
187297,
188030,
193748,
200440,
203728
],
"epoch" : 1061296090,
"timestamp" : "2003-08-19T12:28:10Z",
"version" : "3.6.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Josip:",
" * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.",
" + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy",
" sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.",
" In particular, the appendices that included the list of control",
" fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)",
" and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files",
" is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or",
" optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the",
" deb-building toolchain.",
" + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the",
" chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,",
" Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered",
" properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.",
" + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed",
" with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that",
" everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.",
" Some things remained split up between different chapters when they",
" talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,",
" and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new",
" sections about changelog files.",
" Manoj:",
" * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974",
" * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972",
" * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the",
" wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown",
" number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist",
" bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.",
" closes: Bug#174982",
" * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the",
" resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building",
" machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064",
" * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent",
" mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369",
" * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied",
" during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809",
" * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true",
" behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one",
" way relationship. closes: Bug#183195",
" * Could no longer find the misspelling \"seciton\", thus this must have",
" been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903",
" * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a",
" consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516",
" * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615",
" * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other",
" changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744",
" * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist",
" for the restructuring"
],
"closes" : [
169744,
174982,
178809,
183195,
187615,
189306,
189516,
191369,
191411,
193903,
194972,
194974
],
"epoch" : 1057766495,
"timestamp" : "2003-07-09T16:01:35Z",
"version" : "3.6.0"
},
{
"author" : "Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Josip:",
" * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,",
" closes: #182792.",
" * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid",
" confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.",
" * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.",
" * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.",
" * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.",
" * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.",
" Manoj:",
" * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an",
" extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063",
" * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with \"The",
" Window Manager Specification Project\". closes: Bug#167004",
" * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it",
" changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue",
" since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).",
" closes: Bug#184518",
" * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368",
" * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a",
" footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what \"by hand\"",
" means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507"
],
"closes" : [
165063,
167004,
182792,
184368,
184507,
184518,
185985,
187418,
187420,
187422,
187567,
189274,
189654
],
"epoch" : 1052586830,
"timestamp" : "2003-05-10T17:13:50Z",
"version" : "3.5.10.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Josip:",
" * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from",
" the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022",
" * Fixed a stale reference to the \"base system maintainer\" to",
" base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927",
" * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in",
" the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,",
" closes: #174048",
" * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from",
" Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209",
" * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully",
" fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)",
" closes: #103459",
" * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455",
" * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a \"may\"",
" but a \"should\", added proper linking among various sections dealing with",
" the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510",
" If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the",
" requirement should be a \"must\" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC \"MUST\"),",
" please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift",
" through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with",
" explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with",
" offtopic stuff, too.",
" * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init",
" script should start it, closes: #60979",
" * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of",
" \"should\", closes: #170019",
" * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166",
" This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries",
" in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975",
" * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages",
" that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864",
" * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff",
" imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923",
" * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,",
" closes: #183544"
],
"closes" : [
60979,
69864,
87510,
93975,
103459,
109166,
170019,
172022,
174048,
174927,
177205,
177206,
177207,
177208,
177209,
178455,
181923,
183544
],
"epoch" : 1047062116,
"timestamp" : "2003-03-07T18:35:16Z",
"version" : "3.5.9.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" Manoj",
" * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the",
" postsint. closes: Bug#120585",
" * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be",
" obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582",
" * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980",
" * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using",
" debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require",
" debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it",
" is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.",
" closes: Bug#164035",
" * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425",
" * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812",
" * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it",
" conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an",
" effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each",
" other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in",
" the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776",
" * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248",
" * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830",
" Josip",
" * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright",
" file, closes: Bug#65764"
],
"closes" : [
39830,
53582,
65764,
72980,
120585,
160248,
160776,
162812,
164035,
167425
],
"epoch" : 1037342214,
"timestamp" : "2002-11-15T06:36:54Z",
"version" : "3.5.8.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839",
" * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority",
" may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709",
" * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755",
" * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914",
" * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace",
" * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for",
" symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a",
" previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137",
" * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908",
" * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for",
" details. closes: Bug#133030",
" * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928",
" * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial",
" parts of Bug#161455."
],
"closes" : [
111137,
122928,
129375,
133030,
149709,
160839,
160908,
160914,
164755
],
"epoch" : 1035655969,
"timestamp" : "2002-10-26T18:12:49Z",
"version" : "3.5.7.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fixed some broken hrefs in links",
" * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)",
" * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing",
" the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521",
" * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832",
" * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in",
" the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is",
" since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does",
" not. closes: Bug#139820",
" * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely",
" requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280",
" * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660",
" * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this",
" should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704",
" * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411",
" * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a",
" special field in the control file (and these should be added only",
" after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755",
" * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.",
" closes: Bug#109672",
" * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554",
" closes: Bug#146756",
" * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969",
" * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the",
" maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297",
" * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067",
" * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328",
" * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default",
" window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680",
" * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been",
" disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949",
" * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new",
" build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134",
" * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate",
" the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,",
" since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441",
" * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual",
" packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977",
" * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681",
" * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697",
" * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903",
" * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.",
" closes: Bug#143770",
" * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965",
" * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name",
" and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472",
" * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346",
" * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525",
" * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142",
" * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.",
" closes: Bug#150456",
" * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703",
" * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and",
" this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546",
" * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067",
" * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608",
" * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828",
" * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025",
" * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826",
" * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311"
],
"closes" : [
47298,
69311,
81852,
97755,
100346,
100472,
106280,
106826,
109672,
111025,
112828,
113525,
114949,
116134,
118608,
131441,
134977,
137521,
138681,
139067,
139820,
139832,
139969,
140697,
141307,
141903,
143770,
144297,
144411,
145067,
146703,
146756,
147554,
150456,
151328,
152965,
153704,
154142,
154660,
155680,
156546,
157131
],
"epoch" : 1030778282,
"timestamp" : "2002-08-31T07:18:02Z",
"version" : "3.5.7.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the",
" FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172",
" * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to",
" exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977",
" * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713",
" * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d",
" scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_",
" configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,",
" either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles",
" or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This",
" does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any",
" conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621",
" * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521",
" * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446",
" * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705",
" * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931",
" * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131",
" * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer",
" wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If",
" there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412",
" * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996",
" * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570",
" * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781"
],
"closes" : [
51411,
51412,
110446,
110705,
110711,
110713,
121977,
122931,
122996,
123570,
126131,
131781,
132621,
137172,
137521
],
"epoch" : 1016129813,
"timestamp" : "2002-03-14T18:16:53Z",
"version" : "3.5.6.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,",
" medium, high, emergency.",
" * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,",
" which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]",
" * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional",
" closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849",
" * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition",
" closes: Bug#102199",
"",
" * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461",
" * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625",
" * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc",
" closes: Bug#100631",
" * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for",
" debian/rules closes: Bug#72335",
" * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an",
" informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and",
" its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes",
" the information provided. closes: Bug#105535",
" * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.",
" closes: Bug#105538"
],
"closes" : [
53849,
60461,
72335,
98291,
100631,
102199,
102204,
105535,
105538,
105625
],
"epoch" : 996029002,
"timestamp" : "2001-07-25T02:43:22Z",
"version" : "3.5.6.0"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous",
" 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly",
" merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)",
" * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from",
" 3.0.0 onwards",
" * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2",
" * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS",
" * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files",
" * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of",
" debian/rules to do this",
" * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until",
" patches are incorporated upstream",
" * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm",
" * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744",
" * Made the \"where examples live\" entry in the upgrading-checklist",
" clearer (add \"for use by scripts\")",
" * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473",
" * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove \"only if\")",
" closes: Bug#89674",
" * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows",
" system closes: Bug#91249",
" * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252",
" * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259",
" * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260",
" * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261",
" * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257",
" * The \"man\" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information",
" to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995",
" * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072",
" * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability",
" * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023",
" * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and",
" mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906",
" * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712"
],
"closes" : [
66023,
89473,
89674,
91249,
91252,
91257,
91259,
91260,
91261,
92744,
94995,
95906,
97072,
98712
],
"epoch" : 991388272,
"timestamp" : "2001-06-01T09:37:52Z",
"version" : "3.5.5.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052",
" * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977",
" * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the",
" grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly",
" Julian's fixes:",
" * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation",
" * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503",
" * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.",
" closes: Bug#86436",
" * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.",
" closes: Bug#87233"
],
"closes" : [
42052,
83977,
85503,
86436,
87233
],
"epoch" : 988482621,
"timestamp" : "2001-04-28T18:30:21Z",
"version" : "3.5.4.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual",
" closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705",
" * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual",
" * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source",
" package for the time being",
" * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!",
" * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)",
" * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047",
" * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276",
" * Correct typos etc. in policy-process",
" * Rename all .text files as .txt",
" * Fixed the \"to to\" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007",
" * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651",
" * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828",
" Build-Depends arch syntax",
" * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711",
" configuration files",
" * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to",
" the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later",
" version.",
" * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation",
" from policy maintenance duties.",
" * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien",
" Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236"
],
"closes" : [
84236,
86507,
87007,
87711,
87828,
88651,
88788,
91276,
93047,
93620,
93705
],
"epoch" : 987359779,
"timestamp" : "2001-04-15T18:36:19Z",
"version" : "3.5.3.0"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069"
],
"closes" : [
83069.0
],
"epoch" : 982505509,
"timestamp" : "2001-02-18T14:11:49Z",
"version" : "3.5.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641",
" * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)",
" * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request",
" * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry",
" closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506",
" closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514",
" closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982",
" closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001",
" * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079",
" * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up",
" minor version number for this",
" * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and",
" correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)",
" * Clarify error conditions for package installation",
" (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)",
" * Add the \"main\" section of each distribution (got left out by",
" accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)",
" * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)",
" * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487",
" * Removed bashism from debian/rules"
],
"closes" : [
83487,
84079,
84631,
84636,
84641,
85497,
85501,
85504,
85505,
85506,
85508,
85510,
85511,
85514,
85982,
85986,
85993,
86001
],
"epoch" : 982239180,
"timestamp" : "2001-02-15T12:13:00Z",
"version" : "3.5.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and",
" peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am",
" updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and",
" magnitude of changes since 3.2.1",
" * More spelling corrections, thanks to \"Christian T. Steigies\"",
" <cts@nikocity.de>",
" * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.",
" closes: Bug#83924",
" * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960",
" * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342",
" * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration",
" management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347",
" * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743",
" * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package",
" xutils closes: Bug#82966",
" * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438",
" * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks",
" to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065",
" * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891",
" * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925",
" * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to",
" illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely",
" informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about",
" potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.",
" closes: Bug#80506"
],
"closes" : [
75925,
79891,
80342,
80347,
80506,
82743,
82966,
83065,
83438,
83924,
83960
],
"epoch" : 980740756,
"timestamp" : "2001-01-29T03:59:16Z",
"version" : "3.5.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and",
" root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to",
" this version.",
" * Document the Enhances relationship",
" * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must",
" maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879",
" * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of",
" policy. closes: Bug#53496",
" * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages",
" in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)",
" closes: Bug#53700",
" * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048",
"",
" * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most",
" of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730",
" * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154",
" * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/",
" closes: Bug#59403",
" * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section",
" that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765",
" * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912",
" * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked",
" as conflicting closes: Bug#76028"
],
"closes" : [
51879,
53496,
53700,
55048,
55730,
57154,
59403,
65765,
66912,
76028
],
"epoch" : 979803838,
"timestamp" : "2001-01-18T07:43:58Z",
"version" : "3.2.1.2"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)",
" * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal",
" change in version number is because I suspect that this version is",
" going to be buggy.",
" closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949",
" * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442",
" * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643",
" * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645",
" * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822",
" * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458",
" * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into",
" non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229",
" * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list",
" closes: Bug#77404",
" * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650"
],
"closes" : [
62943,
69229,
70442,
70634,
70643,
72949,
77404,
77645,
77650,
78809,
78822,
82458
],
"epoch" : 979710811,
"timestamp" : "2001-01-17T05:53:31Z",
"version" : "3.2.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the \"to build with X support or",
" not\" policy. closes: Bug#53759",
" * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a",
" clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of",
" policy. closes: Bug#64437",
" * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308",
" * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\\.mail/root\\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668",
" * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946",
" * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947",
" * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948",
" * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516",
" * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004",
" * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006",
" * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031",
" * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424",
" * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426",
" * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is",
" incorrect. closes: Bug#69487",
" * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670",
" * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522",
" * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247",
" * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes",
" closes: Bug#50832",
" * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and",
" telnet-client closes: Bug#58759"
],
"closes" : [
46522,
48247,
50832,
53759,
58759,
61308,
62668,
62946,
62947,
62948,
64004,
64006,
64437,
64516,
69031,
69424,
69426,
69487,
69670
],
"epoch" : 967100790,
"timestamp" : "2000-08-24T07:06:30Z",
"version" : "3.2.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:",
" * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709",
" * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg",
" behaviour. closes: Bug#17369",
" * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935",
" * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.",
" fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522",
" * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement",
" on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398",
" * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934",
" * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787",
" * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091",
" * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225",
" * Documented that the library before the symlink hack",
" (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)",
" is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of \"xserver\"",
" alternative closes: Bug#53755",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package",
" list closes: Bug#53756",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for \"x-terminal-emulator\"",
" virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for \"x-window-manager\"",
" virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults",
" policy closes: Bug#53760",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif",
" policy closes: Bug#53761",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages",
" that use X closes: Bug#53762",
" * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763",
" * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since",
" that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777",
" * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407",
" * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where",
" was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692",
" * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:",
" * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of",
" dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771",
" * Other changes:",
" * Added policy-process to document current procedures.",
" * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail",
" to install with older fileutils.",
" * Installed FHS version 2.1",
" * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa",
" * Added FHS details to copyright file",
" * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules",
" file.",
" * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming",
" dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730"
],
"closes" : [
15709,
17369,
22935,
29522,
39398,
40934,
43787,
51091,
52225,
53405,
53755,
53756,
53757,
53758,
53760,
53761,
53762,
53763,
54777,
56407,
56692,
58771
],
"epoch" : 964996982,
"timestamp" : "2000-07-30T22:43:02Z",
"version" : "3.2.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does",
" not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 951798425,
"timestamp" : "2000-02-29T04:27:05Z",
"version" : "3.1.1.3"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)",
" * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)"
],
"closes" : [
51091,
52225
],
"epoch" : 945722397,
"timestamp" : "1999-12-20T20:39:57Z",
"version" : "3.1.1.2"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.",
" * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:",
" #50502)",
" * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)"
],
"closes" : [
50502,
50857
],
"epoch" : 943298611,
"timestamp" : "1999-11-22T19:23:31Z",
"version" : "3.1.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends",
" description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)"
],
"closes" : [
49901.0
],
"epoch" : 942764628,
"timestamp" : "1999-11-16T15:03:48Z",
"version" : "3.1.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:",
" #45561, #42447, #48570)",
" * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)",
" * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)",
" * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d",
" directoried (closes: #41547)",
" * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)",
" * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new",
" suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)",
" * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)",
" * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)",
" * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)",
" * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml",
" * Clarification of \"extra\" priority (closes: #33076)",
" * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib",
" package criteria (closes: #45318)",
" * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:",
" #41829)",
" * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).",
" * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)",
" * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)",
" * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)",
" * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)",
" * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)",
" * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:",
" #40766, #40767)",
" * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)",
" * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)",
" * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)",
" * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates",
" (closes: #17621)",
" * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:",
" #19179)",
" * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:",
" #41095)",
" * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity",
" * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file"
],
"closes" : [
8221,
17621,
19179,
24695,
32448,
32449,
33076,
40766,
40767,
41095,
41121,
41232,
41547,
41829,
42358,
42447,
42849,
43651,
44620,
44643,
44922,
45307,
45318,
45561,
46516,
48570
],
"epoch" : 941759437,
"timestamp" : "1999-11-04T23:50:37Z",
"version" : "3.1.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180",
" * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files."
],
"closes" : [
40180.0
],
"epoch" : 934784469,
"timestamp" : "1999-08-16T06:21:09Z",
"version" : "3.0.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * A few typos and omissions corrected",
" * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the",
" list.",
" * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408",
" * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the",
" packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the",
" .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this",
" is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)",
" * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a",
" while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159",
" * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533",
" * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915",
" * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036",
" * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,",
" this closes: Bug#38612",
" * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed",
" before. closes: Bug#40864"
],
"closes" : [
25533,
26159,
26915,
30036,
38612,
39408,
40864
],
"epoch" : 932063711,
"timestamp" : "1999-07-15T18:35:11Z",
"version" : "3.0.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be",
" officially uploaded.",
" * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate",
" .deb packages)",
" * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.",
" * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version",
" Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).",
" closes: Bug#21969",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to",
" /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a",
" footnote. closes: Bug#28747",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages",
" closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.",
" closes: Bug# 37342",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X",
" Window System) closes: Bug#38212",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)",
" closes: Bug#37713",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal",
" closes: Bug#37389",
" * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND",
" Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first",
" scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345",
" * Updated the upgrading checklist.",
" * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest"
],
"closes" : [
21969,
28747,
37257,
37338,
37342,
37345,
37389,
37713,
38212
],
"epoch" : 930800955,
"timestamp" : "1999-07-01T03:49:15Z",
"version" : "3.0.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095",
" * Corrected canonical source for \"Csh Programming Considered Harmful\"",
" closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499",
" * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543",
" * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the",
" document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in",
" there). closes: Bug#34233",
" * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033",
" * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302",
" * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to",
" /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875",
" * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148"
],
"closes" : [
21875,
30148,
30302,
31033,
34233,
34988,
35095,
36286
],
"epoch" : 925229429,
"timestamp" : "1999-04-27T16:10:29Z",
"version" : "2.5.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections",
" to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 (\"Files\") should",
" become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and",
" Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6",
" accordingly.",
"",
" What is now Section 5.5 (\"Log files\") should be moved to be a",
" subsection of the new Section 4 (\"Files\"), becoming section 4.8,",
" placing it after \"Configuration files\", moving the would-be Section",
" 4.8 (\"Permissions and owners\") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the",
" current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill",
" in the number gap.",
"",
" This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version",
" number. closes: BUG#25911",
"",
" * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and",
" compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is",
" HTML formatted, it should be accessible as",
" /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a",
" symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian",
" conventions. closes: BUG#21185",
"",
" * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML",
" documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the",
" main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).",
" closes: BUG#7890",
"",
" * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy",
" to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than",
" /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461",
"",
" * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the",
" architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,",
" where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now",
" we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385",
"",
" * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to",
" the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being",
" managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.",
"",
" * Make the package optional, not extra.",
"",
" * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted",
" and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so",
" converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since",
" I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the",
" process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my",
" predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a \"create",
" some space here\" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a",
" paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what",
" it is, really).",
"",
" * Re did the control files, making them more robust",
"",
" * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain",
" by putting in a layer of abstractions."
],
"closes" : [
7890,
21185,
25385,
25911,
26461
],
"epoch" : 909695812,
"timestamp" : "1998-10-29T21:16:52Z",
"version" : "2.5.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 904959695,
"timestamp" : "1998-09-05T01:41:35Z",
"version" : "2.4.1.4"
},
{
"author" : "Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)",
" * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)",
" * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)",
" * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not",
" sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)",
" * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate",
" * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the",
" current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision",
" or date anywhere",
" * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp",
" * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 902825657,
"timestamp" : "1998-08-11T08:54:17Z",
"version" : "2.4.1.3"
},
{
"author" : "Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * non-maintainer release",
" * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as",
" important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very",
" annoying.)",
" * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,",
" but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then",
" * no content changes",
" * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 897981322,
"timestamp" : "1998-06-16T07:15:22Z",
"version" : "2.4.1.2"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Orphaned package"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 895175690,
"timestamp" : "1998-05-14T19:54:50Z",
"version" : "2.4.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:",
"",
" - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs",
" and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:",
" + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)",
"",
" - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:",
" + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)",
"",
" - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:",
" + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,",
" symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute",
" (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)",
"",
" - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:",
" + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)",
" + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged",
" as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)",
" + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload",
" and restart options and to comply with the console message",
" standard (fixes:bug#19216)",
"",
" - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:",
" + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to",
" the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common",
" package.",
"",
" - Updated section 4.9 Games:",
" + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6",
" (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)",
"",
" - Removed one example reference to the current standards version",
" - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that",
" a recompiled manual uses the same release date",
"",
" * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
" - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'",
"",
" * New version numbering scheme:",
"",
" - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy",
" manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and",
" the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering",
" scheme.",
"",
" - The first three digits of the version number specify the",
" `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy",
" change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may",
" differ between the manuals.",
"",
" If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy",
" have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only",
" have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the",
" `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.",
"",
" * Packaging changes:",
"",
" - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only",
" package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.",
"",
" - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 892541289,
"timestamp" : "1998-04-14T08:08:09Z",
"version" : "2.4.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:",
"",
" - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:",
" + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell",
" + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as",
" interpreter",
" + scripts which create files in world-writable directories",
" (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating",
" the directory",
"",
" - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:",
" + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same",
" file extension as the referenced file",
"",
" - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:",
" + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*",
"",
" - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:",
" + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:",
" start, stop, restart, force-reload",
" + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart",
" the service",
"",
" - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:",
" + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should",
" be installed into /etc/cron.d",
"",
" - Updated section 3.7 Menus:",
" + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'",
" (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,",
" has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was",
" obsolete)",
"",
" - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:",
" + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be",
" handled",
"",
" - New section 3.9 Environment variables:",
" + no program must depend on environment variables to get a",
" reasonable default configuration",
"",
" - New section 4.6 News system configuration:",
" + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported",
" by all news servers and clients",
"",
" - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:",
" + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided",
" as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package",
" + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked",
" against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library",
"",
" - Updated section 4.9 Games:",
" + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as",
" non-X games",
"",
" - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)",
"",
" * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
" - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'",
"",
" * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this",
" changelog file",
"",
" * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the",
" Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz",
"",
" * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the",
" online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)",
"",
" * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 886193905,
"timestamp" : "1998-01-30T20:58:25Z",
"version" : "2.4.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:",
" - X library package is now called xlib6g",
" * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
" - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,",
" lambdamoo-server",
" * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual",
" (fixes #13790)",
" * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered",
" the draft official policy (which is not the case)",
" * Don't use debstd anymore"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 877467832,
"timestamp" : "1997-10-21T21:03:52Z",
"version" : "2.3.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:",
" - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new",
" contrib/non-free policy",
" - call \"contrib\" and \"non-free\" a `section' (not `distribution')",
" - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files",
" - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of",
" maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)",
" - new section about `Daemons'",
" - updated section about `Configuration files'",
" - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile",
" - fixed typos and grammatical errors",
" * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:",
" - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'",
" * Paper about libc6 migration:",
" - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!",
" * SGML source code included in package",
" * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 873154471,
"timestamp" : "1997-09-01T22:54:31Z",
"version" : "2.3.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:",
" - completely reworked structure",
" - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim",
" releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual",
" - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual",
" - removed all those ugly footnotes",
" - new example for \"reload\" in section about console messages",
" - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)",
" - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual",
" - rewrote abstract and section introductions",
" - mention \"orphaned packages\"",
" - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the",
" distributions' policy",
" - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel",
" - rewrote sections about \"pre-depends\", \"essential\" and, \"base\" packages",
" - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US",
" - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)",
" - added section about arch spec strings",
" - rewrote section about \"Site specific programs\" (/usr/local)",
" - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs",
" - added section about \"menus\"",
" - removed section about \"web menus\" since this will be superseded with",
" the new documentation policy soon",
" - incorporated \"Debian Free Software Guidelines\" (fixes #9024)",
" - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes",
" #11008)",
" - added section about editors and pagers",
" - added note about Package priorities and dependencies",
" - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)",
" - added section about device files",
" - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)",
" - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)",
" - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,",
" etc.)",
" * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names",
" - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,",
" compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6",
" - Added new section about obsolete names",
" * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration",
" * Fixed package's description"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 868793151,
"timestamp" : "1997-07-13T11:25:51Z",
"version" : "2.2.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 863621595,
"timestamp" : "1997-05-14T14:53:15Z",
"version" : "2.1.3.3"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)",
" * Added new virtual package \"wordlist\" to list (requested by Joey Hess)",
" * Changed wording in section about \"non-free\" packages as suggested",
" by Kai Henningsen (#7076)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 862855539,
"timestamp" : "1997-05-05T18:05:39Z",
"version" : "2.1.3.2"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)",
" * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)",
" * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it",
" \"byhand\".",
" * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy",
" and upload it \"byhand\" too."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 862329734,
"timestamp" : "1997-04-29T16:02:14Z",
"version" : "2.1.3.1"
},
{
"author" : "Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low",
"",
" * Initial Release.",
" * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>",
" * Added section 2.4 about the \"non-us\" distribution.",
" * Added section 3.1.1 about the \"Package\" field in the control file.",
" * Added section 3.2.1 about \"Binaries\": two programs with different",
" functionality must not have the same name.",
" * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into \"Debian changelog and upstream",
" changelog\" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.",
" * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',",
" as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.",
" * Added section 3.13: \"Webstandard 3.0\" by Christoph Lameter.",
" * Added section 3.14: \"Standard for Console Messages\" by Christian Schwarz.",
" * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options",
" for libraries)",
" * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'",
" to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning",
" <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.",
" * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with",
" \"strip --strip-unneeded\", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.",
" * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now",
" \"/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz\". This fixes bug #6130.",
" * Section 6.2 renamed to \"Uploading your first Debian package\". This",
" fixes bug #6130."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 858445736,
"timestamp" : "1997-03-15T17:08:56Z",
"version" : "2.1.3.0"
},
{
"author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;",
"",
" * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and",
" Programmer's manual",
" * Corrected the contact email addresses again.",
" * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)",
" * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load",
" a package into. (Guy Maor)",
" * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in",
" Programmer 6.1."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 849677284,
"timestamp" : "1996-12-04T05:28:04Z",
"version" : "2.1.2.2"
},
{
"author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;",
"",
" * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,",
" Guy Maor and others",
" * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2",
" * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for",
" description of deb file format.",
" * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2",
" * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for",
" shared libraries.",
" * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts",
" (Bug #2481)",
" * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs",
" * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 849104236,
"timestamp" : "1996-11-27T14:17:16Z",
"version" : "2.1.2.1"
},
{
"author" : "David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;",
"",
" * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.",
" * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction",
" * Added section headings for copyright criteria",
" * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)",
" * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and",
" static libraries. (Bug #5299)",
" * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted",
" packages in section on Procedure",
" * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming",
" a package maintainer",
" * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.",
" * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,",
" frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.",
"",
" * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.",
" * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.",
" * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with",
" the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)",
" * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information",
" on various shlib files",
" * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.",
" * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared",
" Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)"
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 848727699,
"timestamp" : "1996-11-23T05:41:39Z",
"version" : "2.1.2.0"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;",
"",
" * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,",
" and can't easily be made to work reliably).",
" * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.",
"",
" * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.",
" * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.",
" * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.",
" * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.",
" * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.",
"",
" * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 842486441,
"timestamp" : "1996-09-12T00:00:41Z",
"version" : "2.1.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;",
"",
" * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).",
"",
" * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.",
" * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for",
" compatibility go in contrib.",
"",
" * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion",
" instructions in policy manual.",
" * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a",
" package in contrib."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 841596438,
"timestamp" : "1996-09-01T16:47:18Z",
"version" : "2.1.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;",
"",
" * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.",
" * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).",
" * When to byte-compile Elisp files.",
" * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.",
"",
" * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.",
" * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.",
" * Typo fixes."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 841518442,
"timestamp" : "1996-08-31T19:07:22Z",
"version" : "2.0.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;",
"",
" * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.",
" * More detail about changelog format names.",
"",
" * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.",
" * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.",
" * Typos corrected.",
" * Released."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 841066054,
"timestamp" : "1996-08-26T13:27:34Z",
"version" : "2.0.0.0"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;",
"",
" * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 840908694,
"timestamp" : "1996-08-24T17:44:54Z",
"version" : "0.2.1.1"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;",
"",
" * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.",
"",
" * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.",
"",
" * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.",
" * More verbosity about netiquette.",
" * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 840800889,
"timestamp" : "1996-08-23T11:48:09Z",
"version" : "0.2.1.0"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;",
"",
" * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 840769536,
"timestamp" : "1996-08-23T03:05:36Z",
"version" : "0.2.0.1"
},
{
"author" : "Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>",
"changes" : [
"",
"debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;",
"",
" * Draft releases."
],
"closes" : [],
"epoch" : 840636473,
"timestamp" : "1996-08-21T14:07:53Z",
"version" : "0.2.0.0"
}
]
}
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