[ Colin Watson ] * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
[ Bill Allombert ] * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better looking .txt file. Closes: #567845 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430) * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information and distribution license' (three times). Proposed by Jonathan Nieder. Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> Closes: #566220 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved ranges. Proposed by Santiago Vila Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Closes: #582495
[ Russ Allbery ] * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Closes: #578854 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Closes: #530687 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> Closes: #562506 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Closes: #224509 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> Closes: #569174 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> Closes: #284340 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> Closes: #478295 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> Closes: #555978 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> Closes: #347581 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> Closes: #575639 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com> Closes: #547272 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> Closes: #560411 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> Closes: #579457 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Closes: #579461 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg, renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134) * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141) * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425) * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594) * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666) * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date. * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839) * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and README.html. (Closes: #584521) * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796) * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253) * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633) * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951) * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney. (Closes: #586163) * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).