Policy update on October 26 or 27.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Hello everybody,

I just sent last calls for Dpkg triggers and the clarification of Built-Using,
and did not find time to work on #707851 (menu files and FreeDesktop entries).

The current changelog for 3.9.5 is as follows.

  * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Closes: #697433
  * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Closes: #679326
  * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
    Closes: #690293
  * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #698030
  * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #669915
  * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
    Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Closes: #715804
  * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
    Closes: #701081
  * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
    Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
    Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
    Closes: #720507
  * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
    Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
    Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
    Closes: #707183
  * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
    Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #671355
  * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
    Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
    Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
    Closes: #668394
  * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
  * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
    Closes: #700574.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.
  * Update dak reference from old katie name.
    Closes: #700536.  Thanks, Guillem Jover.
  * Fix typo in 8.6.4.  Thanks, Raúl Benencia.  (Closes: #691352)
  * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1.  Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
  * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
    Closes: #703022.  Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
  * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
    Closes: #704657.  Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
  * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
    Closes: #705403
  * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)

And here is the upgrade checklist.

   5.4, 5.6.24
          Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 are now mandatory in .dsc
          files.

   5.6.25, 5.8.1
          The DM-Upload-Allowed field is obsolete. Permissions are now
          granted via dak-commands files.

   5.6.27
          New section documenting the Package-List field in Debian source
          control files.

   5.6.28
          New section documenting the Package-Type field in source package
          control files.

   5.6.29
          New section documenting the Dgit field in Debian source control
          files.

   9.1.1.8
          The exception to the FHS for the /selinux was removed.

   10.10
          The name of the files and directories installed by binary
          packages must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to
          ASCII when possible. In the system PATH, they must be restricted
          to ASCII.

   11.5.2
          Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from
          /usr/share/doc/package.

   12.2
          Packages distributing Info documents should use install-info's
          trigger, and do not need anymore to depend on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) |
          install-info.

   debconf
          The escape capability is now documented.

   virtual
          mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder are removed.


I will try to upload on the week-end of the 26–27th.  Every is still welcome
to harverst low-hanging fruits in the meantime.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan