Wording: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Closes: #949390

* Fix error in Perl example for the gain root command.  Thanks, Niels
  Thykier.  (Closes: #949007)

Move the recommendation to include a systemd unit up to the
introduction and change the title and anchors of the section on
init scripts to indicate that they're now about starting system
services.  (The anchors weren't used for links inside Policy.)

Add a recommended naming convention for service units following
the recommendation for init scripts.

Including an init script is encouraged if there is no systemd
unit and optional if there is.  If one is included, it should have
the same name as the systemd unit.

Remove or move some material in the introduction that belongs
more naturally in other sections.  Remove the recommendation that
packages include init scripts in the "Writing the scripts" section.
Be consistent about saying that use of update-rc.d is required if
the package includes an init script (it was required in one place
and recommended in another).

Use "init script" rather than "initscript" consistently.  Make some
other minor wording tweaks.

Remove the section on alternate init systems, which no longer says
anything relevant.

Stephen Kitt authored Nov 24, 2019 and Russ Allbery committed Jan 02, 2020

X fonts are still not in the remit of the Debian packaging system
only, but the font server justification isn’t relevant nowadays. The
use of remote X servers is still relevant, and has always been a
reason for the rule that packages must not depend on X font packages,
since fonts are provided by the server.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>

Stephen Kitt authored Nov 24, 2019 and Russ Allbery committed Jan 02, 2020

This reverts commit 6db3b01a, which
ignored the fact that X clients can still run on remote X servers, and
the fonts are provided by the latter.

I think this makes it slightly clearer that the presence of relevant
license or DFSG requirements is (only) a necessary condition for using
the field.

New text from Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> in #944325.

* Fix broken markup in a footnote about sponsored uploads.  Thanks,
  Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #944332)

The systemd unit files change is significant.

    Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
    Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
    Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
    Closes: #941198

Sven Joachim authored Oct 31, 2019 and Sean Whitton committed Oct 31, 2019

Closes: #943880

* Add missing close brackets to the examples in the Diversions
  appendix.  Thanks, Abou Al Montacir.

* Remove mention of the old Packaging Manual from the package
  description.  This is ancient history and no longer likely to be
  helpful.  Thanks, Holger Levsen.  (Closes: #941835)

Stephen Kitt authored Oct 07, 2019 and Russ Allbery committed Oct 23, 2019

The X server shipped in Debian no longer supports remote retrieval of
fonts from an X font server, so it no longer makes sense to forbid
packages from strongly depending on X font packages. On the contrary,
since local fonts are now the only way for an X program to obtain its
fonts, packages which require specific fonts to operate should depend
on the corresponding font package. (This is already common practice
for non-X font packages.)

Closes: #941803
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>