Re: Head's up: Debian Policy 3.9.3 release planned for 2012-02-22
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> On 2012-02-14 22:22, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 9.10
>> Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore.
> I assume that would be the "${maintscript}-calls-installdocs" tags?
Yup, I think so.
>> 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).
>>
>> mime
>> Retire this separate document and merge its (short) contents 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.
> I guess those five are no-op for us?
Correct.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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