Add Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Split long lines.

Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Closes: #619275

Wording:  Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Closes: #617516

Patch by Charles Plessy.  Closes: #628540

Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.

Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.  Closes: #623050

Charles Plessy authored May 15, 2011 and Russ Allbery committed May 16, 2011

§5.2 names debian/control files ‘Source package control files’,
and §5.4 names .dsc files ‘Debian source control files’.  This patch
ensures that the name ‘Source package control file’ is used only
for debian/control files.

Raphaël Hertzog authored May 16, 2011 and Russ Allbery committed May 16, 2011

With dpkg >= 1.16.1, the value of the Architecture field in the .dsc
is generated a bit differently.

The goal is to be able to always know when a source package generates an
architecture-independent package. Currently as soon as one binary is
"Architecture: any", the value generated is "any" and we have no way to
know that there are "Architecture: all".

With dpkg >= 1.16.1, the "all" is kept even if there's a binary package
with "any". So the resulting value is then "any all". This allows
wanna-build to know if it must schedule a build for the "Architecure: all"
packages.

  Proposed by: Justin B Rye.
  Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
  Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
  Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
  Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>

Charles Plessy authored Mar 05, 2011 and Russ Allbery committed Apr 06, 2011

Closes: #609160

Charles Plessy authored Oct 13, 2010 and Russ Allbery committed Apr 06, 2011

 - Specifies field names similarly to RFC 822/5832;
 - Distinguishes simple, folded and mulitiline fields;
 - Clarifies paragraph separators (#501930);
 - The order of paragraphs is significant;
 - Fields can have different types or purposes in different control files;
 - Moved the description of comments from §5.2 to §5.1;
 - Documented that relationship fields can only be folded in debian/control.

Rather than using imperative tense to describe changes as if they
were commit messages, switch to descriptive statements about the
contents of Policy or imperatives for packagers where appropriate.
Only the most recent entries have been reviewed.

Conflicts:
	policy.sgml

* Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
  7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined.  Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
  Nieder.  (Closes: #599944)

Jonathan Nieder authored Mar 01, 2011 and Russ Allbery committed Apr 03, 2011

Section 3.5 says:

 You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this
 has been discussed on the debian-devel mailing list and a consensus
 about doing that has been reached.

Add a reminder of this to section 7.2, where the semantics of
Pre-Depends are discussed in more detail.

Requested-by: Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@fysast.uu.se>
Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/599944


Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

* Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
  Thanks, David Prévot.  (Closes: #606869)

Steve Langasek authored Mar 21, 2011 and Russ Allbery committed Apr 03, 2011

The current value of DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE on i386 is unsuitable for
cross-distro standardization, because it varies according to the default CPU
target of the toolchain.  Discussion with the toolchain and dpkg maintainers
yielded an alternative solution, a new dpkg-architecture variable
DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH which is committed to dpkg upstream in commit
af3153d09aa3ed5597d6d415e5ab7cc3ba972e7c and will be included in the upload
of dpkg 1.16.0.  Update Policy to document this new requirement for
multiarch.

* Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
  the purpose of that archive area.  Based on a proposal by CJ
  Fearnley.  (Closes: #594542)