Policy Weekly Issue #5: Table Of Contents
DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #5 (January 13, 1998)
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Policy changes that need to be approved
The following policy changes have been developed during recent discussion on
the mailing lists. If there are no objections, these changes will become
`official' soon.
1. Bash vs Bourne shell
2. Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads
3. How packages can register cron jobs
4. Gzipped symlinks
5. Standardized handling of /etc/init.d script options
6. Consistent handling of the Backspace and Delete keys
7. Linking shared libraries with -lc
8. How to do mass-bug-reports correctly
9. Non-interactive build process of packages
10. System-wide environment variables used for program
configuration
11. Policy on stripping static libraries
12. New upload procedure
13. New virtual packages
14. Games using X11
15. Package versions based on dates
Policy topics about which I need additional input
The following topics have been discussed on the mailing lists or in private
mail. I need more information and personal opinions about these topics to
prepare a policy change:
[none]
Policy topics which need to be discussed
The following ideas have been mentioned in recent discussions. Any input is
appreciated.
16. Use of /usr/src
Postponed policy discussions
The following topics showed up in the past and have been postponed. They
will be covered in one of the next Policy Weekly postings.
17. Filesystem location of non-english documentation files
18. X Window Manager policy
19. How daemons should be handled in postinst scripts
20. Manual page inconsistencies
21. Documentation policy
22. Proposed source package format
23. FHS migration
24. PGP signed packages and the `Origin' field
25. Bashism in debian/rules
26. Device locking
27. When to increment a package version number
28. Policy for icons
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