debian-policy 3.9.3.0 source package in Ubuntu

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debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Russ Allbery ]
  * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
    DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
    in debian-devel and debian-project.  Revise for clarity, to add more
    examples, and to update the GFDL license versions.  Thanks, Steve
    Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
    (Closes: #658209, #648387)
  * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
    that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
    the standard.  Patch from Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #646119)
  * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
    Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
    Closes: #626779
  * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
    Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
    Closes: #593533
  * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
    Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <email address hidden>
    Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <email address hidden>
    Closes: #609162
  * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
    Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
    Closes: #23712
  * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
    Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Roger Leigh <email address hidden>
    Closes: #620870, #532120
  * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
    Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
    Closes: #498300
  * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
    Wording: Ben Finney <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Andrew McMillan <email address hidden>
    Closes: #89038
  * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
    "Source package control file" for debian/control files.  Patch from
    Charles Plessy.  (Closes: #626796)
  * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
    contain at least one non-whitespace character.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.
    (Closes: #627490)
  * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
    the chown or chmod fail.  Thanks, Joey Hess.  (Closes: #617315)
  * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
    directory to another and add examples and a rationale.  Thanks,
    Carsten Hey.  (Closes: #626338)
  * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
    source package and the manual page extensions are different for
    separate module packages.  Thanks, Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #643690)
  * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
    bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
    with the long-standing release goal.  (Closes: #646166)
  * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
    education, introspection, and metapackages.  Patch from Charles
    Plessy.  (Closes: #651020)
  * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
    Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either.  Partly
    addresses #587279.
  * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples.  Thanks,
    Slavko.
  * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
  * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
  * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths.  Thanks,
    Michael Dorrington.  (Closes: #626408)
  * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
    when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
    to specific entries.  Patch from Charles Plessy.
  * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
  * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
  * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.

  [ Bill Allombert ]
  * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
    strings (11.1).
    Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
  * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
    Proposed by: Justin B Rye
    Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Closes: #621479
  * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
    Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
    Closes: #623050
  * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
    Patch by Charles Plessy.  Closes: #628540
  * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
    Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
    Closes: #641071
  * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
    files (12.5)
    Wording:  Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>
    Closes: #617516
  * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
    Wording: Lars Wirzenius <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>
    Closes: #640735
  * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
    Proposed by: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <email address hidden>
    Closes: #649674
  * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
    Wording: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Craig Small <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <email address hidden>
    Closes: #633797
  * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
    Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: David Prévot <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
    Closes: #640737
  * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
    Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Niko Tyni <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <email address hidden>
    Closes: #619275
  * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
    fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
    Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
    Closes: #644230
  * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
    Proposed by: Niels Thykier <email address hidden>
    Seconded: tony mancill <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Bill Allombert <email address hidden>
    Closes: #578421
  * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
    Wording: Charles Plessy <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Robert Luberda <email address hidden>
    Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <email address hidden>
    Closes: #637614

 -- Russ Allbery <email address hidden>  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800