Uploaded debian-policy 2.2.0.0 (source all) to master
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Format: 1.5
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.2.0.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Changes:
debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
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* Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
- completely reworked structure
- moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
- moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
- removed all those ugly footnotes
- new example for "reload" in section about console messages
- mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
- don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
- rewrote abstract and section introductions
- mention "orphaned packages"
- maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
distributions' policy
- putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
- rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
- added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
- added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
- added section about arch spec strings
- rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
- included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
- added section about "menus"
- removed section about "web menus" since this will be superceded with
the new documentation policy soon
- incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
- removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
#11008)
- added section about editors and pagers
- added note about Package priorities and dependencies
- added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
- added section about device files
- don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
- app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
- lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, fomulations,
etc.)
* Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
- Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
- Added new section about obsolete names
* Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
* Fixed package's description
Files:
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15328d8099f9f05caba411f78d2db5df 172754 doc extra debian-policy_2.2.0.0.tar.gz
a12f894da7ede0f1289c2a472b0aa83b 203686 doc extra debian-policy_2.2.0.0_all.deb
cbd96e8174992cd56a05fae7bf1da56a 81687 byhand - policy.ps.gz
c183d5dee91187944dc43d81cf35af27 29057 byhand - policy.html.tar.gz
e1f4b70b537f853770fed4c0e96451e1 27550 byhand - policy.text.gz
e7f22352bdc94d38a5689756e3d1d67d 4604 byhand - virtual-package-names-list.text
3cb9a08e6399df9dc52633eb117c21d8 10975 byhand - libc6-migration.text
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