[ubuntu/precise] debian-policy 3.9.3.0 (Accepted)
Benjamin Drung
bdrung at debian.org
Thu Feb 23 16:21:14 UTC 2012
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 <hertzog at debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Closes: #626779
* Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew at morphoss.com>
Closes: #593533
* Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl at jorgensen.org.uk>
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>
Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs at computer.org>
Closes: #609162
* Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>
Closes: #23712
* Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net>
Closes: #620870, #532120
* Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>
Closes: #498300
* MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian at benfinney.id.au>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew at morphoss.com>
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 <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
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 <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Closes: #641071
* Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
files (12.5)
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>
Closes: #617516
* copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw at liw.fi>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>
Closes: #640735
* copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>
Closes: #649674
* copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Seconded: Craig Small <csmall at debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>
Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
Closes: #633797
* copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: David Prévot <taffit at debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Closes: #640737
* Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom at debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Closes: #619275
* Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu at nigauri.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org>
Closes: #644230
* Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org>
Closes: #578421
* Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert at debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>
Closes: #637614
Date: 2012-02-23 15:22:11.186509+00:00
Signed-By: Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/debian-policy/3.9.3.0
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