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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Manoj Srivastava
  • Date: 2004-06-25 16:07:38 UTC
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20040625160738-aizrce3fg0dmma9g
Tags: 3.6.1.1
Manoj:
* [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
  in 6.6 to a footnote.                                  closes: Bug#209855
* Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy.          closes: Bug#212153
* Fix a missing comma in the list of sections            closes: Bug#215524
* Fix spelling of sysv-rc                                closes: Bug#215558
* [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
  incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
  caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
  included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
                                                         closes: Bug#202054
* Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of  the
  version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
  developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
  packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
  this section.                                          closes: Bug#248618
* Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
  3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell                        (Closes: #248786).
* Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
  3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
  Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com>            (Closes: #248788, 247761).
* Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
  Giunchedi                                             (Closes: #236614).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
  Srivastava                                           (Closes: #244969).
* Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
  Kevin Price                                          (Closes: #247143).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
                                                        (Closes: #252392).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
  Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart                     (Closes: #253324).
* Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
                                                        (Closes: #252086).
Josip:
* Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence,            closes: #218530.
* Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
  footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
                                                         closes: #50565.
* Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
  to indicate recommended actions,                       closes: #51832.
* Updated PGP references,                                closes: #68827.
* Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
  according to my skimming of dpkg-source,               closes: #70742.
* Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
                                                         closes: #75508.
* Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
  source tarballs,                                       closes: #79210.
Andi:
* sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS.                         Closes: #241683
* fix link to WM specification.                          Closes: #235484
* manpage -> man page.                          Closes: #232364, #238958
* language adjustment.                                   Closes: #227762
* added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
                                                Closes: #185943, #237049

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