I have just uploaded debian-policy and packaging-manual version
3.1.0.0 to master, so the main packages should be installed in the
next dinstall run. This version of policy takes account of the Tech
Committee decision on the FHS and a large number of other outstanding
issues. A few are still to be incorporated into the next version of
policy, but here we are....
Below you will find the relevant portions of the upgrading checklist
for policy versions 3.0.0.0 through to 3.1.0.0. This will affect
almost all packages, so please do have a look at the list.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
3.1.0.0 Oct 99
Policy Manual:
- /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
/usr/share/doc/<package>. This symlink has to be
maintained by postinst and prerm, because dpkg will cause
problems otherwise. Create/remote the symlinks using debhelper
or see section "6.4. Accessing the documentation" for more
information.
- Introduced source dependencies. (Whereas this ought to demand a
major policy number rise, we've only just had one of them, so
I'm going to use a minor number instead.)
- /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d.
Packages should not be touching this directory, anyway, but
should use update-rc.d instead.
- update-rc.d is now the *only* allowable way of accessing the
/etc/rc?.d/[SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them
directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is
because the file-rc package handles this information in an
incompatible way.)
- Compiled examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples with
symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from
/usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself.
- Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to
/var/lib.
- Added MIME sub-policy document.
- VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR.
- Modified liblockfile description, which affects
mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for
details.
- If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
version should also be included. Such a version may be prepared
using lynx -dump -nolist.)
Packaging Manual:
- Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
added: see section 5.1.
3.0.1.0 Jul 99
Policy Manual:
- Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
.la files must go in the run-time library package.
3.0.0.0 Jun 99
Policy Manual:
- Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
major change, and the implications of this move are probably
not all known.
- Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
control files, though all four digits are still permitted.
- The location of the GPL has changed to
/usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
other major licences
- Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must
include the .la files in the -dev packages.
- Use logrotate to rotate log files
- section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
System)
- There is now anassi=ociated menu policy, in a separate document,
that carries the full weight of Debian policy.
- The files `/var/run/utmp', `/var/log/wtmp' and
`/var/log/lastlog' must be installed writeable by group
utmp. Programs who need to modify those files must be installed
install setgid utmp.
