Hello everyone, I just pushed version 4.7.0.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related documents to sid. Below you will find the significant normative changes from the previously-announced release of Policy (4.6.2.0). Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release, including those named in the changelog who formally proposed and seconded wording, and also those who otherwise participated in the discussions leading up to the wording change proposals. I would particularly like to call out Guillem Jover for a big chunk of work standardising the usage of dpkg-related terminology, and Stéphane Blondon for a new Debian-specific Sphinx theme for our html edition. Holger Wansing and Dmitry Shachnev did a lot of follow-up work to get that format published properly on the web mirrors. =*=*=*= 2.2.1 Document that source packages in the *main* archive area may build binary packages in the *contrib* archive area, although this is discouraged unless the source package is inconvenient to split. This does not relax the requirement that source packages in *main* must not have build dependencies outside of *main*. 2.2.2 The ``non-free-firmware`` archive area has been added. 3.9 Maintainer scripts should use native overriding mechanisms instead of dpkg-divert, wherever possible. Maintainer scripts must not divert configuration files used by systemd components. Maintainer scripts must not use the alternatives system for systemd configuration files. 4.8 Hard links are permitted in source packages. 4.9 For packages in contrib, and for packages in non-free with ``Autobuild: yes``, required targets in d/rules are no longer permitted to attempt network access. Previously, only packages in main had this restriction. 5.6.13 The ``Description`` field is not present in ``.changes`` files if no binary packages are being uploaded. 5.6.19 The ``Binary`` field is not present in ``.changes`` files if no binary packages are being uploaded. 6.3 Packages that automatically start or stop system services must include ``systemd`` units unless the service is only intended for use on systems running alternative init systems. Previously, ``systemd`` also supported init scripts, but that support is being removed. -- Sean Whitton
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