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)

This way, it won't renumber all the other fields, cutting down on
the amount of work required for cross-referencing.

* Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
  to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
  multiarch triplet directories.  Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
  (Closes: #597074)

* Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
  from org source from the revision control repository.  Build and clean
  files from org source unconditionally.  Add Process.{txt,html} to the
  list of files generated from org source.  (Closes: #594274)

* Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
  -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
  packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
  than the version in oldstable.

Also update some of the prefix of the virtual package list to reflect
current procedure.