debian-policy (4.7.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix attribution for Multi-Arch work in previous changelog entry.

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:46:22 +0100

debian-policy (4.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Russ Allbery ]
  * Policy: non-free-firmware packages also need debian/copyright language
    Wording: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #1127343
  * Policy: Allow *.so files to be linker scripts instead of symlinks
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Closes: #1095039
  * Clarify the upgrading-checklist entry from 4.7.3.0 discussing the new
    default for the Priority field.  Thanks to Aurelien Jarno for the
    suggestion.  (Closes: #1124443)
  * Avoid a double negative when describing the restriction on network
    access during the build.  Thanks to Niels Thyker and Bill Allombert
    for suggested wording.  (Closes: #1092762)
  * Update discussion of /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD (Closes: #1120935).
  * Improve wording about Provides and version relations (Closes: #1010229).
    Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez for the patch.

  [ Sean Whitton ]
  * Policy: Document Multi-Arch field
    Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
    Wording: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
    Wording: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Help from Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Rhonda D'Vine and Stuart Prescott.
    Closes: #749826
  * Policy: Document build profiles
    Wording: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
    Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
    Wording: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
    Wording: Nattie Mayer-Hutchings <nattie@debian.org>
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Closes: #757760, #830524, #1099587

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:26:04 +0100

debian-policy (4.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Policy: Document range of subordinate user IDs
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Closes: #1100632
  * Policy: Git-Tag-Tagger & Git-Tag-Info fields
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
    Seconded: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
    Closes: #1091868
  * Policy: Remove MSDOS-Filename field
    Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Closes: #1114994
  * Policy: Priority field no longer recommended
    Wording: Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Closes: #1110017
  * Fix missing word in 10.1 & upgrading checklist.
  * Rewrite "date"->"day-of-month" in Policy 3.2.1 (Closes: #1100455).
    Thanks to Ahmed Siam for reporting the issue.
  * d/control: Drop Priority & Rules-Requires-Root fields.

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:19:12 +0000

debian-policy (4.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Policy: Relax 10.1 slightly for /usr/games
    Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Seconded: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
    Seconded: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
    Closes: #1098948

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:35:02 +0800

debian-policy (4.7.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Source-only upload.

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:39:04 +0800

debian-policy (4.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Fei Ding & Ke Zhang ]
  * New Simplified Chinese translation.

  [ Sean Whitton ]
  * Install new translation in new binary package.
  * Merge two duplicate sets of .po files, locales/ & policy/locale/.
  * Policy: Clarify filename conflicts for programs
    Wording: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
    Seconded: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
    Seconded: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Closes: #1075856
  * 5.6.31: Update default value of Rules-Requires-Root (Closes: #1091913).
    Thanks to Niels Thykier for the report.
  * Policy: Packages must/should not require man, info and locale files
    Wording: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
    Closes: #1089110
  * Policy: Packages must not install to /bin, /lib, /lib* or /sbin
    Wording: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
    Seconded: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
    Seconded: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
    Seconded: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
    Closes: #1074014
    - Rewrite Helmut's text to avoid mentioning the merged-/usr transition
      by name, and to avoid the transition-specific "aliased paths" jargon.
      My hope is that this will be better for future readers.
  * 10.1: Delete paragraph about compatibility symlinks /path -> /usr/path.
    This paragraph is effectively superseded by the preceding Policy change.
  * Fix formatting issue in 10.2 (Closes: #1094664).
    Thanks to Roberto C. Sanchez for the report.
  * Fix typo in 2.2.2 (Closes: #1098339).
    Thanks to Ahmed Siam for the report.

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:44:53 +0800

debian-policy (4.7.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Support building without (fake)root (Closes: #1087626).
    Thanks to Niels Thykier for the patch.
  * Add debian/debian-policy-*/ to .gitignore.

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:48:08 +0000

debian-policy (4.7.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix typo in 9.3.1.
    Thanks to Paul Gevers for the report.
  * Fix markup problem in 3.9 (Closes: #1074040).
    Thanks to Ke Zhang for the report & patch.
  * Update specification of the default value for Rules-Requires-Root.
    See #1057238.

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:41:50 +0800

debian-policy (4.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Sean Whitton ]
  * Policy: Prefer native overriding mechanisms to diversions & alternatives
    Wording: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Closes: #1035733
  * Policy: Improve alternative build dependency discussion
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Closes: #968226
  * Policy: No network access for required targets for contrib & non-free
    Wording: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
    Seconded: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Closes: #1068192

  [ Russ Allbery ]
  * Policy: Add mention of the new non-free-firmware archive area
    Wording: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #1029211
  * Policy: Source packages in main may build binary packages in contrib
    Wording: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
    Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #994008
  * Policy: Allow hard links in source packages
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Closes: #970234
  * Policy: Binary and Description fields may be absent in .changes
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
    Closes: #963524
  * Policy: systemd units are required to start and stop system services
    Wording: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
    Closes: #1039102

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:08:55 +0800

debian-policy (4.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Guillem Jover ]
  * Standardize terminology with dpkg.  (Closes: #1020248)
    - Use 'stanza' for each section of a multi-section control file, such as
      the source package template control file (debian/control).
    - Use standardized naming for binary package control files, source
      package control files (.dsc), source package template control files
      (debian/control), and upload changes control files (.changes).
    - Refer to members of the control member of the .deb archive as
      'package metadata'.
  * Update Installed-Size algorithm used by dpkg (Closes: #793499).

  [ Stéphane Blondon ]
  * New Debian-specific Sphinx style (Closes: #915583).

  [ Max-Julian Pogner ]
  * Fix missing quotes in dpkg-divert examples. (Closes: #1031403)

 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:39:43 +0800

# Older entries have been removed from this changelog.
# To read the complete changelog use `apt changelog debian-policy-ja`.
