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Debian Policy 2.4.0.0 has just been released. An updated debian-policy package has been uploaded to master and will be installed in the archive soon. The new version of the Policy Manual is available online at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-policy/ Here is a list of changes since the last release (2.3.0.1): * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual: - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts: + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as interpreter + scripts which create files in world-writable directories (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating the directory - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links: + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same file extension as the referenced file - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files: + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu* - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]: + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options: start, stop, restart, force-reload + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart the service - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs: + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should be installed into /etc/cron.d - Updated section 3.7 Menus: + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu' (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications, has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was obsolete) - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration: + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be handled - New section 3.9 Environment variables: + no program must depend on environment variables to get a reasonable default configuration - New section 4.6 News system configuration: + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported by all news servers and clients - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system: + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library - Updated section 4.9 Games: + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as non-X games - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!) * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names: - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen' - -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian has a logo! [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the logo PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA pages at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNNJQfE4c72jvRVaFAQHhgAP/ekZ5OWttIoo1J+Aq5lwzG5FMNRFXodgC wsFCZFQPQKTXBOGPFY6PaM8soLK9sXfYsGv86cGbjA5QdRfe4V/Ay67KEfmfXN+i 0HhvX0y/U3xVS0lE1GhztziLytxIbojL7ULa8ns8Tm+hDeD1j4P++FW9to6y/OOd EHJljDV3T6Y= =EMjv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .