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debian-policy (4.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Sean Whitton ]
* Policy: Prefer native overriding mechanisms to diversions & alternatives
Wording: Luca Boccassi <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
Closes: #1035733
* Policy: Improve alternative build dependency discussion
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Wouter Verhelst <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <email address hidden>
Closes: #968226
* Policy: No network access for required targets for contrib & non-free
Wording: Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sam Hartman <email address hidden>
Seconded: Tobias Frost <email address hidden>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
Closes: #1068192
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Add mention of the new non-free-firmware archive area
Wording: Gunnar Wolf <email address hidden>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Closes: #1029211
* Policy: Source packages in main may build binary packages in contrib
Wording: Simon McVittie <email address hidden>
Seconded: Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Closes: #994008
* Policy: Allow hard links in source packages
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Helmut Grohne <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Closes: #970234
* Policy: Binary and Description fields may be absent in .changes
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sam Hartman <email address hidden>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <email address hidden>
Closes: #963524
* Policy: systemd units are required to start and stop system services
Wording: Luca Boccassi <email address hidden>
Wording: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Seconded: Luca Boccassi <email address hidden>
Seconded: Sam Hartman <email address hidden>
Closes: #1039102
-- Sean Whitton <email address hidden> Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:08:55 +0800
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debian-policy (4.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Standardize terminology with dpkg. (Closes: #1020248)
- Use 'stanza' for each section of a multi-section control file, such as
the source package template control file (debian/control).
- Use standardized naming for binary package control files, source
package control files (.dsc), source package template control files
(debian/control), and upload changes control files (.changes).
- Refer to members of the control member of the .deb archive as
'package metadata'.
* Update Installed-Size algorithm used by dpkg (Closes: #793499).
[ Stéphane Blondon ]
* New Debian-specific Sphinx style (Closes: #915583).
[ Max-Julian Pogner ]
* Fix missing quotes in dpkg-divert examples. (Closes: #1031403)
-- Sean Whitton <email address hidden> Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:39:43 +0800
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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
