Hello folks, I have just uploaded Debian Policy version 3.9.3 to the repository. The next time you revise your packages, please check to see if there are any updates that need to be done. Here is the upgrading checklist for this version: 2.4 New archive sections _education_, _introspection_, and _metapackages_ added. 5.6.8 The `Architecture' field in `*.dsc' files may now contain the value `any all' for source packages building both architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages. 7.1 If a dependency is restricted to particular architectures, the list of architectures must be non-empty. 9.1.1 `/run' is allowed as an exception to the FHS and replaces `/var/run'. `/run/lock' replaces `/var/lock'. The FHS requirements for the older directories apply to these directories as well. Backward compatibility links will be maintained and packages need not switch to referencing `/run' directly yet. Files in `/run' should be stored in a temporary file system. 9.1.4 New section spelling out the requirements for packages that use files in `/run', `/var/run', or `/var/lock'. This generalizes information previously only in 9.3.2. 9.5 Cron job file names must not contain `.' or `+' or they will be ignored by cron. They should replace those characters with `_'. If a package provides multiple cron job files in the same directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly modified as above), `-', and then some suitable suffix. 9.10 Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore. 10.7.4 Packages that declare the same `conffile' may see left-over configuration files from each other even if they conflict. 11.8 The Policy rules around Motif libraries were just a special case of normal rules for non-free dependencies and were largely obsolete, so they have been removed. 12.5 `debian/copyright' is no longer required to list the Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged). copyright-format Version 1.0 of the "Machine-readable `debian/copyright' file" specification is included. mime This separate document has been retired and and its (short) contents merged into Policy section 9.7. There are no changes to the requirements. perl Packages may declare an interest in the <perl-major-upgrade> trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl. virtual `ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic}' is renamed to `fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}'. A separate announcement about the copyright-format document will be coming shortly, once the www team has had a chance to update the web site. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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