debian-policy
Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Binary packages in stable
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | 4.7.2.0 | doc | 4,709 kB |
Description
Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Dependencies all
- Recommends
- libjs-jquery (>= 3.6.0), libjs-sphinxdoc (>= 8.1), sphinx-rtd-theme-common (>= 3.0.2+dfsg)
- Suggests
- doc-base
Source package
- Name
- debian-policy
- Version
- 4.7.2.0
- Maintainer
- Debian Policy Editors
- Homepage
- https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy
- Repository
- https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy
Bugs (243 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #1144627 important debian-policy: Introduce architecture as 2.6 and document baseline on bugs.debian.org pending by Bastien Roucaries reported updated
- #1140526 important link in §2.2.1 to REJECT-FAQ is broken on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Jonas Smedegaard reported updated
- #1063605 important debian-policy: mandate use of `dpkg-buildflags` for all software compilation on Debian on bugs.debian.org pending by Ansgar reported updated patch
- #1051582 important Policy 9.3 (Starting system services) is largely obsolete on bugs.debian.org pending by Russ Allbery reported updated
- #885698 important Update and document criteria for inclusion in /usr/share/common-licenses on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #1150960 normal all DNSSEC-enabled resolvers must depend on dns-root-data on bugs.debian.org pending by Marco d'Itri reported updated
- #1138547 normal debian-policy: Add openRC section to starting system services on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthias Geiger reported updated moreinfopatchupstream
- #1138158 normal Define semantics of version-range dependencies on bugs.debian.org pending by Julian Andres Klode reported updated
- #1136641 normal debian-policy: do not require shared libraries to change package name with soname changes on bugs.debian.org pending by Ansgar reported updated
- #1136160 normal debian-policy: Clarify that Multi-Arch is not applicable for udebs on bugs.debian.org pending by Nilesh Patra reported updated patch
- #1135785 normal Suggest starting date-based version numbers with 0.x on bugs.debian.org pending by Ian Jackson reported updated patch
- #1135097 normal Please extent list of licenses named in chapter 12.5 on bugs.debian.org pending by Mechtilde Stehmann reported updated patch
- #1134940 normal Add more long license text to avoid duplicating it in many packages on bugs.debian.org pending by Mechtilde Stehmann reported updated patch
- #1124522 normal debian-policy: Suggest 0.0~ in front of date-based versions on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #1122270 normal base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses on bugs.debian.org pending by Rafael Laboissière reported updated
- #1121601 normal debian-policy: encourage keeping backwards compatibility with older releases past current minus one on bugs.debian.org pending by Otto Kekäläinen reported updated
- #1118763 normal debian-policy: Don't mention doc-base any more on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Jeremy Bícha reported updated
- #1118371 normal Add guidance for file locking; transition from existence-based locking and /var/lock to file locking on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated patch
- #1118188 normal be more precise about conffiles handling on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported updated
- #1117926 normal debian-policy: url to man-page-howto is broken on bugs.debian.org pending by Fab Stz reported updated
- #1117566 normal debian-policy: Unclear wording of user-defined control fields on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Richard Hansen reported updated patch
- #1111839 normal Change the policy for locking serial devices? on bugs.debian.org pending by Marco d'Itri reported updated
- #1111126 normal Copyright format does not explain how to describe a license text itself on bugs.debian.org pending by Ben Hutchings reported updated
- #1107137 normal debian-policy: Assumed need to adapt to no longer meaningful nativeness concept on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Guillem Jover reported updated patch
- #1104854 normal binNMUs can cause ma-same violations in eg manpages on bugs.debian.org pending by Ian Jackson reported updated
- #1102295 normal d/control must not change during build on bugs.debian.org pending by Chris Hofstaedtler reported updated
- #1099124 normal debian-policy: should 9.1.2 apply to /var/local too? on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1094145 normal debian-policy: Remove or significantly minimize manual page requirement on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Jeremy Bícha reported updated
- #1091330 normal Clarify that only editable configuration files need be in /etc on bugs.debian.org pending by Russ Allbery reported updated
- #1087820 normal debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively on bugs.debian.org pending by Otto Kekäläinen reported updated
- #1086055 normal Should /usr/bin and /usr/sbin be merged? on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Gold reported updated
- #1084924 normal The system-log-daemon virtual package on bugs.debian.org pending by Ian Jackson reported updated
- #1069256 normal debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using on bugs.debian.org pending by Maytham Alsudany reported updated patch
- #1068220 normal normalize case of debian/control fields on bugs.debian.org pending by Steve Langasek reported updated
- #1059730 normal debian-policy: switch to new Debian-conform html theme for Sphinx/reST on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Holger Wansing reported updated patch
- #1058589 normal Should urgency=critical/emergency be mentioned? on bugs.debian.org pending by Daniel Gröber reported updated
- #1057199 normal debian-policy: express more clearly that Conflicts to not reliably prevent concurrent unpacks on bugs.debian.org pending by Helmut Grohne reported updated
- #1051371 normal Post-/usr-merge paths for script interpreters on bugs.debian.org pending by Luca Boccassi reported updated
- #1050322 normal Partial versus complete replacement of a package by another on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1029831 normal debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential on bugs.debian.org pending by Ansgar reported updated
- #1027128 normal debian-policy: Flowcharts do not show second maintscript argument (since policy 4.6.2, dpkg >= 1.18.5) on bugs.debian.org pending by Gioele Barabucci reported updated
- #1024367 normal In 4.9.1, the example uses not recommended install -s on bugs.debian.org pending by Enrico Zini reported updated patch
- #1000771 normal missing Files-Excluded in packaging-manuals/copyright-format on bugs.debian.org pending by Geert Stappers reported updated
- #998282 normal Please make Section a required field for the source paragraph in d/control on bugs.debian.org pending by Felix Lechner reported updated
- #998165 normal debian-policy: document and allow Description in the source paragraph on bugs.debian.org pending by Mattia Rizzolo reported updated
- #990362 normal debian-policy: Obsolete advice on multiple builds on bugs.debian.org pending by Niels Thykier reported updated
- #980069 normal Better documentation of x-terminal-emulator on bugs.debian.org pending by Bastien Roucariès reported updated
- #976149 normal debian-policy: [9.3.2] drop requirement to not fail if /etc/default file is deleted on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Oxan van Leeuwen reported updated
- #962277 normal debian-policy: Maintainer address: move away from RFC822 to RFC5322 + RFC6532 on bugs.debian.org pending by Ansgar reported updated
- #954794 normal Permit packages to declare dependencies on Essential packages on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated
- #950440 normal debian-policy: Confusing conflation of Essential:yes w/ Priority:required on bugs.debian.org pending by Guillem Jover reported updated
- #945269 normal debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var on bugs.debian.org pending by Ansgar reported updated patch
- #944329 normal debian-policy: Unclear text about password files modifications on bugs.debian.org pending by Guillem Jover reported updated
- #922674 normal debian-policy: make symlink requirements consistent on bugs.debian.org pending by Ansgar Burchardt reported updated
- #920692 normal Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated
- #918438 normal orig tarball components with uppercase letters on bugs.debian.org pending by Ian Jackson reported updated
- #907313 normal Lack of guidelines on purging conffiles in stateless packages on bugs.debian.org pending by Gioele Barabucci reported updated
- #907051 normal Say much more about vendoring of libraries on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #906949 normal Clarify documentation location in a Python2-less distribution on bugs.debian.org pending by Stuart Prescott reported updated
- #905453 normal debian-policy: Policy does not include a section on NEWS.Debian files on bugs.debian.org pending by Elana Hashman reported updated
- #905401 normal permit access to apt repositories during builds on bugs.debian.org pending by Ian Jackson reported updated
- #904729 normal Policy 12.5: Must the license grant be included in debian/copyright? on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #904248 normal Add netbase to build-essential on bugs.debian.org pending by Osamu Aoki reported updated patch
- #902612 normal Packages should not touch users' home directories on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #890946 normal debian-policy: Editor policy is inconsistent with sensible-editor's behaviour on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthew Woodcraft reported updated
- #884964 normal Discourage 'su -' in maintscripts, in favour of plain 'su' on bugs.debian.org pending by LinuxChix SysAdmin reported updated
- #884006 normal copyright-format: Documenting copyrights not in source package but in binary package on bugs.debian.org pending by Yao Wei reported updated moreinfo
- #883950 normal debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier on bugs.debian.org pending by Mattia Rizzolo reported updated
- #881166 normal log files, postrotate example: start-stop-daemon or invoke-rc.d? on bugs.debian.org pending by Daniel Pocock reported updated
- #879049 normal debian-policy: Clarify how nodoc is to be used with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES on bugs.debian.org pending against src:debian-policy by Jeremy Bicha reported updated
- #876241 normal debian-policy: Produce HTML output that doesn't try to load any JavaScript on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #875531 normal debian-policy: please require alternatives to support "editor +42 filename" on bugs.debian.org pending by Adam Borowski reported updated
- #874019 normal Note that the '-e' argument to x-terminal-emulator works like '--' on bugs.debian.org pending by Sean Whitton reported updated
- #873001 normal [debian-policy] get-orig-source documentation should include a pointer to devref and a minimal example on bugs.debian.org pending by Bastien ROUCARIÈS reported updated
- #872956 normal [debian-policy] warn about danger of pipe in shell snippet of makefile on bugs.debian.org pending by Bastien ROUCARIÈS reported updated
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