• Debian Policy 4.3.0.0 released

    From Sean Whitton@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 23 11:30:02 2018
    Hello everyone,

    I have uploaded Debian Policy 4.3.0.0 to sid. Thank you to everyone who participated in preparing this release.

    Here are the significant normative changes from the previously announced release of Policy (4.2.1):

    2.3 & 4.5
    In cases where a package's distribution license explicitly permits
    its copyright information to be excluded from distributions of
    binaries built from the source, a verbatim copy of the package's
    copyright information should normally still be included in the
    copyright file, but it need not be if creating and maintaining a
    copy of that information involves significant time and effort.

    4.9
    Required targets must not write outside of the unpacked source
    package tree, except for TMPDIR, /tmp and /var/tmp.

    4.17
    Packages should not contain a non-default series file. That is,
    dpkg's vendor-specific patch series feature should not be used for
    packages in the Debian archive.

    10.1
    Binaries should be stripped using
    ``strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note``
    (as dh_strip already does).

    10.1
    It is no longer suggested nor recommended to use ``install -s`` to
    strip binaries, because it gets several things wrong.

    10.2
    When stripping shared libraries with strip(1), you should
    additionally pass
    ``--remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note``
    (as dh_strip already does).

    virtual
    New ``dbus-session-bus`` and ``default-dbus-session-bus`` virtual
    packages for a package providing the D-Bus session bus, and for
    Debian's preferred D-Bus implementation, respectively.

    --
    Sean Whitton

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