Changelog
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 <email address hidden>
Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
Closes: #566220
* extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
ranges.
Proposed by Santiago Vila
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Luk Claes <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Closes: #582495
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
Closes: #578854
* Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
Wording: Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden>
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Closes: #530687
* Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Closes: #562506
* Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Closes: #224509
* Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <email address hidden>
Closes: #569174
* Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>
Seconded: gregor herrmann <email address hidden>
Closes: #284340
* Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden>
Closes: #478295
* Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden>
Closes: #555978
* Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
Closes: #347581
* Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
Closes: #575639
* Policy: Update Format control field documentation
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden>
Closes: #547272
* Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
Wording: Frans Pop <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Ben Pfaff <email address hidden>
Closes: #560411
* Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
Wording: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <email address hidden>
Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <email address hidden>
Closes: #579457
* Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
Wording: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
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).
-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
