Changelog
debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Niels Thykier <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <email address hidden>
Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <email address hidden>
Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367
* Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Simon McVittie <email address hidden>
Seconded: Niels Thykier <email address hidden>
Closes: #640263
[ Sean Whitton ]
* Policy: Disambiguate "original authors" in 12.5
Wording: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: David Bremner <email address hidden>
Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <email address hidden>
Closes: #678607
* Policy: Document Testsuite: field
Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Seconded: David Bremner <email address hidden>
Closes: #758124
* Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers
Wording: Niels Thykier <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Seconded: David Bremner <email address hidden>
Closes: #822430
* Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems
Wording: Andreas Henriksson <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <email address hidden>
Seconded: Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
Seconded: gregor herrmann <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Closes: #835520
* Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry
Wording: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Seconded: Philip Hands <email address hidden>
Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <email address hidden>
Seconded: David Bremner <email address hidden>
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).
-- Sean Whitton <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:47:47 -0400
