Hello everyone,
I have just pushed Debian Policy 4.1.5.0 to sid. Thank you to those who
participated in the preparing of this release; there were many.
Looking forward to seeing many of you as participants in the Debian
Policy sprint at DebCamp18 a few weeks from now!
Here are the most significant changes from the previously announced
version of Policy (4.1.4):
4.9.2
Document how ``debian/rules`` and the ``Rules-Requires-Root`` field
interact.
5.6.12
You should not change a package's epoch, even in experimental,
without getting consensus on debian-devel first.
5.6.12.1
Epochs should not be used for the purpose of rolling back the
version of a package. Use the +really convention.
5.6.31
Document the ``Rules-Requires-Root`` field.
9.1.1
Update Debian's version of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard from
2.3 to 3.0, and update the list of exceptions. Only a tiny minority
of packages, if any, should be made buggy by this change.
9.3.2 & 10.4
Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts from SUSv3 to
POSIX.1-2017 (also known as SUSv4 in some contexts).
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Sean Whitton
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