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debian-policy (4.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Sean Whitton ]
* Policy: Update alternatives system priorities for window managers
Wording: Ansgar <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Closes: #975631
* Policy: Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Closes: #992136
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Add new-version argument to several maintainer script calls
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Closes: #823256
* Policy: Essential packages must work only if previously configured
Wording: Helmut Grohne <email address hidden>
Seconded: Santiago Vila <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
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)
-- Sean Whitton <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:41:44 -0700
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