Changelog
debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden>
Closes: #530967
* Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
Wording: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
Closes: #527871
* Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden>
Closes: #514919
* Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
Wording: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>
Seconded: Adeodato Simó <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Closes: #519941
* Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
Closes: #522217
* Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
Closes: #493007
* Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
Wording: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden>
Closes: #537707
* Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Closes: #533852
* Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
Closes: #538665
* Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
Wording: Cyril Brulebois <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden>
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.
-- Iulian Udrea <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:33:51 +0100
