Change logs for debian-policy source package in Vivid

  • debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
    
    
      * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <email address hidden>
        for the help. Closes: #769219
    
     -- Bill Allombert <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
  • 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 <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Julian Gilbey <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Closes: #731810
      * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
        Wording: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Michael Biebl <email address hidden>
        Closes: #741304
      * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
        Wording: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Closes: #748480
      * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
        Wording: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <email address hidden>
        Closes: #748479
      * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
        Wording: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <email address hidden>
        Closes: #748380
      * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
        dependency
        Wording: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Axel Beckert <email address hidden>
        Closes: #750017
      * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
        Wording: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Closes: #742756
      * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
        Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Closes: #555980
      * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
        Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
        Closes: #593611
      * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
        Wording: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Arno Töll <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <email address hidden>
        Closes: #491547
      * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
        Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Tony Mancill <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Closes: #754876
      * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi 
        Wording: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <email address hidden>
        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 <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Closes: #613143
    
     -- Bill Allombert <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
  • debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
    
    
      * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
        Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
        Closes: #697433
      * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
        Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
        Closes: #679326
      * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
        Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <email address hidden>
        Closes: #690293
      * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
        Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Wording: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Closes: #698030
      * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
        Wording: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Closes: #669915
      * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
        Wording: Thomas Goirand <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Closes: #715804
      * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
        Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Julian Gilbey <email address hidden>
        Closes: #701081
      * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
        Wording: Ian Jackson <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden>
        Closes: #720507
      * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
        Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
        Closes: #707183
      * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
        Wording: Paul Wise <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Closes: #707077
      * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
        Wording: Niels Thykier <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
        Closes: #706778
      * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
        Wording: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
        Closes: #671355
      * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
        Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>
        Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
        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 <email address hidden>.
      * 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.
    
     -- Charles Plessy <email address hidden>  Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900